The Future of Canadian Immigration with Tony Keller

In the final of three 2025 McGill Max Bell Lectures, Tony Keller explores the options for restoring the Canadian immigration consensus, rediscovering the immigration middle-ground shared by most voters, and building a model immigration system that will benefit Canadians, the Canadian economy and immigrants. Followed by a discussion with Parisa Mahboubi, Senior Policy Analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute, and Rebekah Young, Vice President and Head of Inclusion and Resilience Economics at Scotiabank.

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 Maclean’s, 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’s National Newspaper Award for editorial writing in 2016.

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