CIDA VS. SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE By Pierre Beemans (Column)

Pierre Beemans

CIDA vs. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee

The Ottawa Citizen ran an article on February 17 on the report of the Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, which has been looking at foreign aid and CIDA for the last year or two. The article highlighted one of the options recommended for consideration, which was that CIDA be dismantled, and touched on several others. It also chastised the Agency for being inefficient and ineffective, and criticized it for its excessively high administrative costs.

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THE CURRENT STATE OF IMMIGRATION POLICY By Joe Bissett (report)

  Joe Bissett

THE CURRENT STATE OF CANADIAN IMMIGRATION POLICY

We are led to believe that Canada’s immigration policy serves the national interest and is essential for economic growth, to fill our labour shortages, and to offset an aging and diminishing population. We are also told that most of our immigrants are selected because they possess the education, trades, skills and training essential to meet our labour force demands. These assertions need to be challenged because they do not bear up under examination. They have become myths, used by governments and pro – immigration advocates to justify unreasonably high immigration levels.

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