{"id":2939,"date":"2018-01-26T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:17","slug":"riddell-forum-2018-canadas-immigration-policy-in-an-era-of-political-polarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2018\/riddell-forum-2018-canadas-immigration-policy-in-an-era-of-political-polarization\/","title":{"rendered":"Riddell Forum 2018: Canada\u2019s Immigration Policy in an Era of Political Polarization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Riddell Forum 2018: Canada\u2019s Immigration Policy in an Era of Political Polarization\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/World-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"World\" class=\"wp-image-2580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/World-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/World-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/World-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/World-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/World-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/World-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/World.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 23, 2018, the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management sponsored the 2018 Riddell Forum. The event which was titled, &#8220;Canada\u2019s Immigration Policy in an Era of Political Polarization&#8221;, featured a panel discussion with a group of leading experts in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Ditchburn, editor-in-chief of Policy Options magazine, moderated the panel, which features Rachel Curran, senior associate at Harper &amp; Associates, Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter at the Toronto Star, Jamil Jivani, visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Andrew Griffith, fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the Environics Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panel discussed questions like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How do we have a productive public debate on a hot-button issue like immigration?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why has Canada been more successful than many other countries in dealing with immigration policy?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do we avoid the problems that have plagued immigration policy elsewhere?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The full event is able for viewing here:&nbsp;http:\/\/www.cpac.ca\/en\/programs\/public-record\/episodes\/58783855#<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 23, 2018, the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management sponsored the 2018 Riddell Forum. The event which was titled, &#8220;Canada\u2019s Immigration Policy in an Era of Political Polarization&#8221;, featured a panel discussion with a group of leading experts in the field. Jennifer Ditchburn, editor-in-chief of Policy Options magazine, moderated the panel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}