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A report from an organization co-founded by Dominic Barton brings a certain Xi Jinping tone to prescriptions for a bigger, bolder Canada
In October 2016, about a year after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were elected with a majority, the government’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth’s first report set out a bold agenda: Canada should aim to become a nation of 100 million by the end of the century.
The council, headed by one of Trudeau’s economic gurus, Dominic Barton, proposed increasing annual immigration to 450,000 a year by 2021, launching the country toward escalating prosperity created by “skilled and talented people” eager to build a nation of “inclusive economic growth.”
Through the fevered immigration environment of the last three years, the objective has mostly faded from the policy agenda. In the wake of another election, Barton and other advocates of an immigration boom are back with another report on the same ambitious theme.
The new report from Century Initiative, an organization co-founded by Barton, reiterates the grand claims that a larger population is the key to a prosperous economic future. “We believe that putting Canada on track for a population of 100 million Canadians in 2100 should be central to Canada’s bold response to this century’s challenges,” the report says.
Along with Barton — former global head of McKinsey & Company and now Canada’s ambassador to China — the Century Initiative’s backers include Goldy Hyder, CEO of the Business Council of Canada, and Mark Wiseman, former head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Whether their new report, titled For a Bigger, Bolder Canada, can trigger a national crusade for a new immigration boom is debatable.
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