Demographics and Immigration
This area covers broad demographic developments and their economic impact, particularly labour market, fiscal and pension policy impacts, and policies affecting permanent and temporary migration to or from Canada. It includes analyses of the outcomes of migration on Canada's economy and on migrants themselves.
September 16, 2015 - Andrew Parkin
Canada’s lacklustre performance on the OECD’s test of adult literacy, numeracy and problem solving has raised questions about the quality of provincial education systems, but the explanation for the...
January 16, 2015 - Aaron Jacobs, Colin Busby and William B.P. Robson
New Brunswick faces a $68 billion fiscal burden – the future tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze, says a...
January 9, 2015 - Aaron Jacobs, Colin Busby and William B.P. Robson
Prince Edward Island faces a $13 billion fiscal burden – the future tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze,...
January 8, 2015 - Aaron Jacobs, Colin Busby and William B.P. Robson
Newfoundland and Labrador face a $65 billion fiscal burden – the future tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze...
January 7, 2015 - Aaron Jacobs, Colin Busby and William B.P. Robson
Nova Scotia faces a $89 billion fiscal burden – the future tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze, says a...
December 19, 2014 - Aaron Jacobs, Colin Busby and William B.P. Robson
Saskatchewan faces a $79 billion fiscal burden – the future tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze, says a...
Intelligence Memos
To: Canada’s Ministers of Immigration and Finance
From: William B.P. Robson and Parisa Mahboubi
Date: March 27, 2018
Re: Later Retirement versus Higher Immigration as Remedies for an Aging Population...
Op-Ed
Canada is getting older. Not just us Canadians as individuals, but our population as a whole.
Our fertility rate dropped below the replacement rate of 2.1 required for population stability way back...
Op-Ed
As it contemplates the possibility of a modernized NAFTA, Canada should seek to improve labour mobility throughout North America to address skill shortages in Canada.
The narrative around the Trump...
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