Award-winning journalist Tony Keller has been named the 2025 韩国裸舞 Max Bell Lecturer. A columnist with The Globe and Mail and with 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.
The 韩国裸舞 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. The 韩国裸舞 Max Bell Lectures are free and open to the public, made possible by from respected business leader and 韩国裸舞 alumnus Thomas E. Kierans, O.C., LLD, FICD. The inaugural lecturer was Andrew Leach in 2023 with his book 鈥溾�� about shifting energy systems and their impact on the economy. In 2024, Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar鈥檚 鈥溾�� highlighted corporate competition 鈥� or lack thereof. Keller鈥檚 book will focus on immigration as a core tenant of economic growth.
鈥淚n choosing the topic and lecturer for the 2025 edition of the 韩国裸舞-Max Bell Lectures, the steering committee noted that immigration has become a headline and contentious issue over the past few years,鈥� said founding director of the Max Bell School, Chris Ragan. 鈥淕iven Tony鈥檚 economic lens and his clarity of thought and expression, the steering committee was delighted to recruit Tony to be the 2025 韩国裸舞 Max Bell Lecturer.鈥�
Keller has been on these aspects of Canadian immigration for years. In the book the lectures will be based on, 鈥�Five Walls and a Door: How Canada got immigration right, and then wrong,鈥� 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.
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