Immigration
- Straight Talk on immigration and national security: Beef up surveillance along the Canada-US border, security expert suggests January 25, 2013
Automated sensors and a climate for more information sharing could create a basis for intelligence-led enforcement along miles of unpatrolled border MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, January 25, 2013 – As the federal government considers border security op...
- Straight Talk on immigration and national security: Streamline ‘robotic’ deportation procedures, security expert suggests January 22, 2013
Electronic monitoring devices and biometric ‘bad guy’ lookout systems at the border appropriate tools in tracking unwanted individuals MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, January 22, 2012 – Canada’s “robotic appeals process” may put immigration law...
- Vanguard Magazine features latest Straight Talk on immigration and national security January 7, 2013
Click here to read the latest issue of Vanguard Magazine. Click here to read the latest Straight Talk with Scott Newark on immigration and national security.
- Sun News: MLI author and security expert Scott Newark says head off undesirables before they arrive at the border December 19, 2012
December 19, 2012 - In an interview for Sun News, MLI author and security expert Scott Newark says Canada must improve its intelligence gathering and sharing so that individuals who pose a security risk to Canada are identified before they arrive at ou...
- Straight Talk with Scott Newark on immigration and national security: Head off undesirables before they arrive at the border, security expert says December 18, 2012
Making immigration and national security compatible is possible but requires courage and commitment MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA, December 18, 2012 –Canada must improve its intelligence gathering and sharing so that individuals who pose a security risk...
- The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Impacts Immigration Policy in Washington December 9, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE December 7, 2011, Ottawa, ON - In Washington, new legislation was recently introduced to fast-track visas for foreigners spending $500,000 on residential property. This news arrives a year after the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) or...
- MLI Paper - Preventing migrant smuggling: Leading Canadian expert provides comprehensive road map November 15, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE October 25, 2011, Ottawa, ON – Incidents like the August 2010 arrival of the Sun Sea shipload of asylum seekers have highlighted Canada’s vulnerability to migrant smuggling. A failure to respond effectively to and deter such migran...
- Much good news and some worrying results in new study of Muslim public opinion in Canada November 1, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE November 1, 2011, Ottawa, ON – At a time when Muslims constitute one of Canada’s fastest growing immigrant communities and Islam the fastest-growing religion, Canadians will find much to reassure them, but also much to ponder, in a...

