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Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you very much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here on the other side. As you know, I spent four years as the finance critic for the Reform Party, spending many hours in this room. I'd like to note that I am both a professor of economics emeritus at Simon Fraser Unive
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, sir, I am on track. —but where, importantly, also the largest numbers of parliamentary seats are at stake. Through my own limited contact with immigrants, I have noticed they are very much aware, more than the average Canadian, of the cost that immigrants impose on us fis
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee It is essential to make a distinction between family members who are part of the core family: spouses, underage children. I don't think anybody has any problem with that. The issue we're facing is the one concerning parents and grandparents. If you apply the principle I think yo
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think it would be a compromise between my radical proposal and the one that exists. But I can't stop myself from commenting on the NDP proposals. Immigrants are adding very large numbers to the people who are living in poverty in Canada. Not only are they themselves part of th
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. I would like to see a clear, non-political, non-moral criterion for selecting who should come in, and as we do so it will automatically determine the numbers. I don't care what the numbers are. I'm not anti-immigrant. I'm against immigrants who are imposing significant ec
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee I do not know.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee If they pay their way, they will pay the for health care, for the disposal of the garbage that Ben-Ami was talking about. At the moment, they don't.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee No, that's not true.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee Only a quick comment.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think all of the arguments that you've made about people who say we need more immigrants to make the country grow use the wrong criteria. There is no interest in having a large national income, aggregate GDP, or else China would be the best place to live in. What we need is pol
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee Sure. It means a transfer of income from the general taxpayer to the people whose parents are providing these services.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee Why should we be subsidizing immigrants?
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee As a politician, I was told never to answer a hypothetical question, and I will continue to do so. I think these issues should just be chucked aside and we should concentrate on the question of whether we can pass legislation in this Parliament to say “We're sorry, guys who are
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel
Citizenship and Immigration committee I would like to say generally that I have great respect for my friend Mr. Kenney, the minister, but I think he's wrong. He's wrong that immigration is not needed in order to increase per capita income. It is possible to increase per capita income if we select the right kinds of i
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Herbert Grubel