Commentary
The intellectual foundation underlying the Canadian policy of continuous, high immigration is showing considerable strain as key weaknesses are exposed in several of the arguments most commonly used by proponents.
One of the most common reasons cited by politicians to explain why Canada needs a high annual immigration inflow is to offset declining domestic fertility rates. A core flaw of this argument was just exposed in a paper published in Population Research and Policy Review, a longstanding peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of demography.
The paper was published on July 17 and given the rather mundane title of “Immigrant Fertility in Canada 2001–2021: A Brief Report” but in fact provides fascinating insights into Canada’s immigration policy that are bound to keep policymakers up at night….