Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the general question of whether political scientists still talk to economists in this area, yes, we spend a lot of time doing that. On the question of the cost-benefit analysis of one worker in any given group and their family, that's not something I've done. I imagine the C

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. On the broad question of why this is happening throughout the west—this rise of fairly xenophobic, obviously racist politicians and political parties—on that front, there's a lot going on and I wouldn't pretend to be able to explain it all. But I would say that certainly eco

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I haven't seen that poll. Did you say it's an Angus Reid poll? When you say that they've lost faith in the immigration system.... I would not be surprised by a big jump in trust in the system. That's the kind of thing where a single perceived failure can shift attitudes fairly

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would certainly cost support to move away from an emphasis on—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. It's certainly the case that support for immigration would be hurt if it were perceived as less economically beneficial. I don't have hard evidence, but my guess is that the mix, the leaning toward economic immigrants, has improved and has helped to maintain support for imm

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the question of fairness, I'm not aware of any attempt to measure the relationship between perceptions of fairness and attitudes directly. I do know that confidence in institutions—trust that the government knows what it's doing, trust that the bureaucracy works—is generally a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the first question, whether this is the right target, I don't have an opinion about any particular target. On the question of whether Canadians will accept this, I think they will. I think it can be sold in a way that is convincing. I think that it could be rejected, and it

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Hello, and thank you to the committee for inviting me. I'm a political scientist whose research and teaching focus on the relationship between public opinion and public policy, primarily in North America and western Europe, although I do occasionally look elsewhere. As a benefi