Profs. Skuterud and Doyle cited in an an article written by Globe and Mail columnist, Konrad Yakabuski

Monday, October 2, 2023
immigration levels and projections

Soaring immigration levels under the Liberals have not made Canada richer, or its social programs more sustainable. 

Canada’s GDP per capita has failed to keep pace with that of other developed countries and even declined in recent quarters. 

“For economists who study this, we just shake our heads,” says the University of Waterloo’s Mikal Skuterud, one of a growing number of labour-market experts critical of the Trudeau government’s immigration policies. “I think we have completely gone in the wrong direction.”

Read the full Globe and Mail article here.