Maclean's and Canadian Business host series of online debates

Macleans and Canadian Business magazines have teamed up to present a series of online video debates about such contentious issues as U.S.-Canada integration, selling water, immigration policy and the carbon tax. The debate videos are sponsored by Microsoft Canada.

The videos, under the umbrella heading "Thinking the Unthinkables" filmed late last year, will be posted every two weeks for the next 10 weeks on macleans.ca and canadianbusiness.ca. They are moderated by Canadian Business editor Joe Chidley and executive editor of Maclean's Steve Maich.

The first debate, according to a Rogers Publishing release features Andrew Coyne, national editor of Maclean's magazine and James Bissett, former head of the Canadian Immigration Service, wrestling with whether Canada adopt a more wide-open immigration policy.

Another debate asks whether we should erase the U.S. border for the purposes of trade and labour mobility? Jim Stanford, chief economist, Canadian Auto Workers and author, Paper Boom, debates Michael Hart, Simon Reisman chair in trade policy, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.