Feds should reboot cash-for-residence immigration program

The current dysfunctional system allows Quebec to stiff B.C. and Ontario.

Immigration Minister John McCallum, pictured at a press conference on Nov. 24, should start a citizenship-through-investment program for wealthy immigrants, says Colin Singer.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY COLIN SINGER

May 11, 2016

MONTREAL—The federal government has taken fire over Quebec’s immigrant investor program, which offers residency to wealthy immigrants, mostly from China. Critics accuse Ottawa of disregarding that the vast majority of these individuals settle in British Columbia and Ontario, but deprive these pr...

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