Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Manager of Research at JIAS Toronto. Writing on Canadian immigration policy, the settlement sector, and international affairs. PhD, University of Washington.
IRCC has proposed abolishing the FSW, CEC, and FST programs in favour of a single Federal High-Skilled Class. Here's what the shift toward wage-based selection actually signals.
Canada's Auditor General documented IRCC's failure to act on 800 known fraudulent study permits — and the systemic design that made it inevitable.
Immigration Policy
Bill C-12's group processing powers are more consequential than its asylum provisions. What they mean, who they answer to, and what they leave unresolved.
Immigration Policy
Three CEC draws at 508, 508, 507 — and a March 15 language floor rise for FSW and CEC. Read together, they describe a system selecting differently, not less selectively. What IRCC's March moves actually signal about Canada's 2026 immigration architecture.
Immigration Policy
Canada is preparing to tighten immigration. Targets are down. The political narrative has shifted. And somewhere in that shift, 298,128 Ukrainians who came here under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) — and tens of thousands of others on special temporary measures — are watching their status clocks run