To: Canadians concerned about prosperityFrom: Martin EichenbaumDate: May 5, 2025Re: Trump has Given Us a Generational Talent Opportunity. Let’s Seize It. Canadians often complain that many of our brightest stars move south. The list of distinguished expats is long and impressive: Artists, academics, entrepreneurs, managers, athletes and more. The phrase “brain drain” is familiar to all of […]
Balancing Canada’s Population Growth and Ageing Through Immigration Policy Canada faces twin demographic pressures: an ageing population and rapid population growth driven by immigration. The report argues that immigration levels must strike a careful balance – sufficient to offset some effects of low fertility and an ageing workforce, but not so high as to outpace […]
May 1, 2025 – Canada cannot rely on immigration alone to address the challenges posed by its ageing population and relentless decline in fertility rates, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. Without a broader population strategy, rising immigration could fuel rapid growth while straining housing, healthcare, and infrastructure — without fully […]
April 22, 2025 – With a wave of Canadians staying in the workforce past age 65, employers need to improve long-term disability insurance (LTD insurance) to better reflect the needs of today’s workforce, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Rethinking Age-Cutoffs for Long-term Disability Insurance,” author Joe Nunes examines LTD insurance, which […]
The Study in Brief As more Canadians work past age 65 – due to longer life expectancy, the end of mandatory retirement, and the need or desire to keep working – rigid age cutoffs for long-term disability (LTD) insurance, typically set at 65, may be legally vulnerable. Although courts have upheld some age-based terminations of […]
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting ZhangTo: Canadian economic observersDate: March 26, 2025Re: We Have More Workers. Now We Have to Invest in Them As trade tensions with the United States escalate, putting tens of thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, our home-grown productivity problem continues to erode the country’s economic strength. Without a change of strategy, Canada faces […]
From: Tasnim FarihaTo: Housing watchersDate: March 25, 2025Re: Slowing Population Growth May Already Be Slowing Increases in Rents Canada’s housing sector is grappling with a multifaceted crisis characterized by soaring prices, declining affordability, and an increasing disparity between housing supply and population growth. Since 2016, home prices have surged by nearly 40 percent, contributing to […]
Published in the Financial Post From 2015 to 2023, the federal government allowed immigration levels to increase fivefold, mostly through a significant rise in temporary immigration. By mid-2024, Canada had three million non-permanent residents, representing 7.3 per cent of the country’s population — up from just 1.4 per cent in 2015. A key objective of […]
February 25, 2025 – Canada’s expansive immigration policy from 2016 to 2024 has expanded the labour force but has also increased demand for goods, services, and infrastructure, more likely sustaining or even increasing overall labour shortages rather than easing them, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “The Immigration Paradox: How […]
Study in Brief This study investigates the effects of Canada’s expansive immigration policy, implemented between 2016 and 2024, on labour shortages. It explores how the influx of permanent and temporary immigrants has affected the balance between labour supply and demand, with attention to whether the policy has met one of its key objectives – alleviating […]
Canada is squandering a vital resource in its skilled immigrants. On this episode of the CDHI podcast with Michael Hainsworth, two C.D. Howe Institute immigration experts discuss this and explain the importance of tearing down barriers to labour mobility.
Canada is squandering a vital resource in its skilled immigrants. On this episode of the CDHI podcast with Michael Hainsworth, two C.D. Howe Institute immigration experts discuss this and explain the importance of tearing down barriers to labour mobility.
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To: Canadians concerned about prosperityFrom: Martin EichenbaumDate: May 5, 2025Re: Trump has Given Us a Generational Talent Opportunity. Let’s Seize It. Canadians often complain that many of our brightest stars move south. The list of distinguished expats is long and impressive: Artists, academics, entrepreneurs, managers, athletes and more. The phrase “brain drain” is familiar to all of […] 
Balancing Canada’s Population Growth and Ageing Through Immigration Policy Canada faces twin demographic pressures: an ageing population and rapid population growth driven by immigration. The report argues that immigration levels must strike a careful balance – sufficient to offset some effects of low fertility and an ageing workforce, but not so high as to outpace […] 
The Study in Brief As more Canadians work past age 65 – due to longer life expectancy, the end of mandatory retirement, and the need or desire to keep working – rigid age cutoffs for long-term disability (LTD) insurance, typically set at 65, may be legally vulnerable. Although courts have upheld some age-based terminations of […] 
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting ZhangTo: Canadian economic observersDate: March 26, 2025Re: We Have More Workers. Now We Have to Invest in Them As trade tensions with the United States escalate, putting tens of thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, our home-grown productivity problem continues to erode the country’s economic strength. Without a change of strategy, Canada faces […] 
From: Tasnim FarihaTo: Housing watchersDate: March 25, 2025Re: Slowing Population Growth May Already Be Slowing Increases in Rents Canada’s housing sector is grappling with a multifaceted crisis characterized by soaring prices, declining affordability, and an increasing disparity between housing supply and population growth. Since 2016, home prices have surged by nearly 40 percent, contributing to […] 
Published in the Financial Post From 2015 to 2023, the federal government allowed immigration levels to increase fivefold, mostly through a significant rise in temporary immigration. By mid-2024, Canada had three million non-permanent residents, representing 7.3 per cent of the country’s population — up from just 1.4 per cent in 2015. A key objective of […] 
Canada is squandering a vital resource in its skilled immigrants. On this episode of the CDHI podcast with Michael Hainsworth, two C.D. Howe Institute immigration experts discuss this and explain the importance of tearing down barriers to labour mobility.