Our Canadian Journey

Despite being on record as saying that international students undergo a criminal background check, Minister Miller is claiming that he did not say that. The media & CPC have failed to hold him to account for this. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the e...

The messaging that 4 million homes will be built by 2031 ignores one vital factor: the availability of the financial resources required to do so. The push to build more may end becoming counterproductive. CMHC link: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-data/data-tables/housing-market-data/monthly-housing-starts-construction-data-tables *** Independent...

Now that it is possible to talk openly about high immigration, we are seeing ideas being expressed that are on the more extreme side. CPC must distance itself from these ideas and people. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my li...

The Liberals’ policy of mass immigration has created an environment where the tiny minority of racists in Canada are emboldened to come out of the woodworks. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do no...

Over-reliance on India for recruiting international students & TFW’s has created an imbalance in society that could lead to strife. In the guise of increasing diversity, we are actually reducing it. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging resp...

It is argued that we need a high number of international students in order to save the post-secondary education sector for Canadian kids. But that high number has made housing unattainable for the same Canadian kids. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the en...

Forget words. Federally & in Ontario, the actions of Conservatives point to supporting mass immigration. As the popular saying goes, “We need to talk.” *** (Link to Motion M-44: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/89339/motions/11528727 ) Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and...

As the issue of international students and visa-mill colleges roils on, more & more unpleasant questions are coming to the fore, throwing yet more doubt on the worth of the whole policy. Questions such as, Does this college even exist? *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and...

Many immigrants bring battles from their country of origin to Canada. These battles become Canadian ones because many other Canadians embrace these battles with eager enthusiasm. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners &...

The man who believes that all usage of fossil fuels should be carbon-taxed also offered the view that GST should not apply to fossil fuel usage for heating, because heating is ‘essential’. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my l...

Many international students abuse food banks. Many Canadians are too naïve to accept that we are being had. Meanwhile, the people raking in the moolah via study permits don’t care. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners...

Some people always hated Jews. Being ‘pro-Palestine’ only gives them a pretext to act out their hatred in public. Sadly, in today’s Canada, they face no consequences for their actions & words. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response f...

After refusing to call Hamas ‘terrorists’, this week’s SCIENCE coverage by CBC includes the story of a man ‘fighting to rename natural gas’. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Pa...

Many Canadians are borrowing the terminology of Indigenous issues in Canada and applying it to the conflict in Gaza. This is irresponsible and dangerous. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not be...

The argument that Yaroslav Hunka shouldn’t be judged as a Nazi because he made ‘a difficult choice’ of fighting one evil regime (the Soviets) by joining another evil regime (the Nazis) seeks to change fundamentally how we have viewed Nazi crimes. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & polic...

The just-announced cut of $1 billion on defense spending is the latest example of why Canada has lost its clout on the world stage. Let’s take a look at the cumulative factors that have brought us to this sorry pass. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the en...

NDP leader Jack Layton was ridiculed for suggesting that geopolitical matters should be approached with pragmatism rather than ideological zealotry. Canada would do well to heed this advice in its diplomatic spat with India. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for al...

Some responses to my article about PM Trudeau’s disastrous trip to India for the G20 summit show fundamental defects in what many Canadians believe our foreign policy should be based on. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my lis...

Conventional wisdom has it that CPC forms a majority government when there is a vote-split between LPC & NDP. But it is likely that, as the cliché goes, “This time it’s different”. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my liste...

A recent MSM report shows that our Establishment is loath to address the uncomfortable aspects of any serious issue. Therefore, the issue doesn’t get resolved. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do...

The symbiotic relationship between activists and the political class creates a force that acts as a parasite on the body of the broader society. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in...

In yet another instance of the ‘horseshoe theory’, Pierre Poilievre’s idea of creating dense housing around transit stations falls afoul of two diametrically opposed groups. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners &...

The dogmatic opinions around immigration are so deeply entrenched in many sections of Canada that no amount of evidence to the contrary suffices to shake them. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do...

As a first-generation immigrant, I am unable to decipher whether policy in Canada is aimed at reducing the incidence of addiction or to fuel the habit in an enthusiastic manner. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners &a...

By treating a set of ideas as unchallengeable, and the people who challenge them as evil, DEI is killing the future of Canada's children, and thence, the future of Canada. *** Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & re...