The government released a new citizenship guide for new Canadians. The booklet is meant to offer new citizens an introduction to Canada’s history and identity.
Unmistakably, this guide is a political attempt at capturing the definition of the Canadian identity. It dedicates a lot of space to promote certain values and chooses to conspicuously omit others.
There [...]

Jason Kenney is at it again. He just blamed immigrants for their apparent low registration in language courses the government offers to new arrivals. An average of 25% of immigrants sign-up for English/French free courses after they land in Canada and Mr. Kenney says “Common sense just tells me that 25 per cent is too [...]

The Harper government has proposed new changes to the current immigration system. Those proposals have received much deserved attention by Canadians. Why? Because they are about to erase reforms that were implemented by Pearson and Trudeau decades ago when the system had bias and arbitrariness.
The Conservatives are arguing that they need to make changes [...]

Last week, Statistics Canada released a report that concluded that the financial situation of new immigrants has shown what they called a “chronic” low-income condition. In 2002, low-income rates among immigrants during their first full year in Canada were 3.5 times higher than those of Canadian-born citizens. In 2004, the low-income rates were 3.2 times [...]