Overview

Canada has engaged in an immigration policy experiment of momentous importance over the last 25 years: it has almost doubled the flow of new immigrants. This has not only strained Canada’s absorptive capacity and the common public culture, and increased the costs of immigration for Canadians, but it has also led the more recent cohorts of immigrants to experience much greater difficulty integrating into their new homeland, causing them to fall more and more below the level of income of the Canadian-born. Canadians have been disinformed by officials, the intelligentsia and the media about the real impact of mass immigration on the economy and about its potential capacity to counter the effect of the aging of Canadian population. Canadians have been hoodwinked into accepting that maximum diversity is optimum diversity. This book questions certain toxic myths in good currency about immigration, points to grievous administrative pathologies about the selection process of immigrants, and proposes new guide posts to shape a principled Canadian immigration policy – based on fair play and rules of hospitality – that include a clear understanding that permission to become a member of the host society must not be granted unconditionally. Moral contracts with newcomers should define the expectations of the host country as the quid for the quo represented by the entitlements that are afforded to the newcomer.

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Author:   Gilles Paquet (University of Ottawa)
Publisher:   University of Ottawa Press
Imprint:   Invenire
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.147kg
ISBN:  

9780776638461

ISBN 10:   0776638467
Pages:   126
Publication Date:   10 August 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 – Dumbfounding Aspects of Canadian Immigration Policy Introduction Some stylized facts The baffling ‘Canadian consensus’ reversal after the mid-1990s A frontal attack on this wicked problem may be counterproductive Scheming virtuously on three fronts: a brief sketch Conclusion Chapter 2 – Immigration and the Solidarity-Diversity-Security Nexus Introduction The SDS nexus Citizenship and the SDS nexus Conclusion Chapter 3 – Toward Fair Play and Hospitality as a New Frame of Reference Introduction Moral revolution → social transformation Frame of reference I Common public culture under threat Frame of reference II in the making Conclusion Chapter 4 – Toward Principled Governance of the Immigration Regime Introduction Basic philosophy A circumspect appraisal of the state of play by officialdom Toward a new Canadian immigration regime The moral contracts with newcomers Terms of integration and default settings Conclusion Conclusion References

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Gilles Paquet (1936–2019), O.C., MRSC, was Professor Emeritus at the Telfer School of Management and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of Arts of London, and served as President of the Royal Society of Canada (2003–2005). He studied at Laval, Queen's (Canada) and at the University of California (Los Angeles) where he was Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics. He taught at Carleton University for almost 20 years before joining the University of Ottawa in 1981. He received honorary doctorates from Queen's, Laval, and Thompson Rivers University, received the Public Service Citation Award of APEX, and was made Honorary Member of l'Association des économistes québécois. He was made Member of the Order of Canada in 1992.

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