James Bissett on Canada's broken refugee system
Monday, 23 August 2010
Ambassador James Bissett, Distinguished Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies and former Director-General Immigration Services in Canada speaks with radio host Dave Rutherford about Canada's broken refugee system and how Canada is now the destination of choice for human traffickers. To listen to this interview click on the arrow below.
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Impact of HST on Ontario and British Columbia Households
Written by David Murrell, Ph. D Wednesday, 18 August 2010
In this paper David Murrell, Professor of Economics at University of New Brunswick and Senior Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies, measures the impact of the new HST tax, implemented on July 1, 2010, by the Ontario and British Columbia governments, on households. The paper focuses on the effects of the tax regime change, from the retail sales tax (RST) to the HST, on the five income quintiles as defined by Statistics Canada.
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Human Rights as a dangerous ideological abstraction
Written by Michael Veck Friday, 06 August 2010
In this essay, Michael Veck discusses how the absence of a sound theoretical foundation for human rights law has led to the development in Canada and other Western countries of a judicial regimen that is ideological in nature and incoherent in practice, ultimately posing a threat to liberal democracy itself by subverting existing legal traditions imposing policies that are anathema to Canadian values and Western culture in general.
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- In defense of Canada’s “No Abortion Policy” in foreign aid
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- Rethinking How We Deliver Foreign Aid
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