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Canada needs better policies to address today鈥檚 economic challenges, and that starts with bold discourse. The 91社区 Max Bell Lectures focus on the analysis, balance, and practicality needed to plan for a more prosperous future.
Immigration has become a headline and contentious issue over the past few years. There are many dimensions to the assessment of Canada鈥檚 immigration policy, including the extent to which it lies at the core of a strategy for greater economic growth, the ability of the economy to absorb large increases in immigration over short periods, the impact of greater immigration on already fast-rising housing prices and long wait times in the country鈥檚 emergency rooms, and the degree to which expanded immigration is necessary to address existing labour shortages for Canadian employers.
Tony Keller from The Globe and Mail has been writing extensively on several aspects of Canadian immigration for years.听In Five Walls And a Door: How Canada got immigration right, and then wrong, Keller looks at Canada鈥檚 uniquely popular and successful immigration system, how it thrived for decades, and how it was broken in the space of a few short years. Immigration can bring important economic and social benefits to a country, and the 鈥淐anadian way鈥� of doing immigration was a model for the developed world. Keller examines the Canadian model's secret sauce, explains why the system came apart, and suggests how it can be rethought, restored and improved.
The 91社区 Max Bell Lectures are held in three Canadian cities annually, and the associated book will be published each year ahead of the lecture series by Sutherland House.听The 91社区 Max Bell Lectures are free and open to the public, made possible by from respected business leader and 91社区 alumnus Thomas E. Kierans, O.C., LLD, FICD.
The 2025 lecturer is Tony Keller.
Tony Keller is a columnist with The Globe and Mail. Over a career of more than 30 years, he has been editorials editor and member of the editorial board for The Globe, editor of The Financial Post Magazine, managing editor of 惭补肠濒别补苍鈥檚, and a news anchor at BNN (now BNN-Bloomberg). Born and raised in Montreal, he is a graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School. He won Canada鈥檚 National Newspaper Award for editorial writing in 2016.
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