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Seven Migration-Cooperation Policies to Build Canada’s Inter-American Relations
From the migration-policy chapter I contributed to the Canadian Council of the Americas report “Beyond the Build: A New Canadian Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean.” Some of the most important relationships between Canada and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean involve the movement not of goods and services, but of people. […]
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“Cultural purity is an oxymoron (Saunders just quoted this).”
― Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
― Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
“The movement to join Washington had a substantial following in the 1850s, centred in Montreal...It faced considerable resistance, though - in part because the United States was having one of its periodic convulsions of nativist politics and a furious debate over the slave trade. In fact, the U.S.-annexation movement would receive its final rebuff not from colonial-minded Canadians but from the Confederate states, who feared that the addition of the British North American colonies to the 31 states would tip the political balance of power away from slavery.”
― Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
― Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
“The solution, Britain and its colonial leaders decided, was to import people who were loyal - but not necessarily inventive or talented or ambitious. The colonial administration was soon paying cashiered soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars and bankrupt but loyal British farmers to make the crossing. Reform politicians in Upper Canada complained that the colonial elite had issued a large number of land patents, often for sizable estates, to loyal Tories in Britain without regard for any other qualities….The strategy worked….But it also had the effect of choking the economic and civic life out of nascent Canada, at a moment when the Industrial Revolution was beginning to transform the rest of the Western world.”
― Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
― Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
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