The Carney Liberals say they’re bringing in 380,000 new permanent residents next year.
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Their own numbers show the real figure is closer to 662,000.
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The highest previous number of new permanent residents ever recorded in Canada for a single year was 483,655 in 2024.
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At that point, and since then, the government, even the Liberals under both Carney and Trudeau, said that immigration numbers had gotten out of hand and that they would reduce them.
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Now they’re moving immigration levels back toward Century Initiative territory, the push for a Canada of 100 million people.
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The government has long said it doesn’t support and isn’t following the plans of the Century Initiative.
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Perhaps that’s believable, but only because, based on the current trajectory, we’ll hit 100 million long before 2100, meaning we are outpacing the Century Initiative.
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The real immigration number
Under the government’s just-announced plan, 380,000 people would be admitted as new permanent residents in 2027.
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A further 200,000 would be people who are currently temporary residents who would be made permanent, and another 82,000 would be people who were previously promised permanent residency but didn’t make the cut in this current year.
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On top of this high number of permanent residents, the Carney government plans to invite another 350,000 temporary residents in 2027, most of whom will likely stay forever.
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We simply don’t have a credible immigration system any longer that can be relied upon to balance the number of people coming in with the needs of the country.
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The problem with Canada’s current high immigration numbers is that we can’t absorb that many people.
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We have a housing shortage, long wait times to see a doctor or obtain a medical procedure, and high unemployment.
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In Ontario and Alberta, the supposed drivers of our economy, unemployment stands at 7.3%.
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The numbers don’t fit
In 2027, housing starts for all of Canada are expected to be just over 200,000 units.
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That’s enough housing for roughly 500,000 people, yet Ottawa plans to admit more than twice that number through permanent and temporary immigration streams.
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It’s true that many of the people who will be accepted as permanent residents next year are already in the country, but that is always the case, and the population continues to rise in unsustainable ways.
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That’s not how Prime Minister Mark Carney sees it.
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He defended the new and out-of-control immigration levels as sustainable at a news conference on Friday.
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“Yes, we believe it is in line with sustainable immigration,” Carney said.
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“We have taken back control of immigration.”
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Canadians are catching on
From 2006 through 2017, before the Liberals began ramping up immigration levels, Canada saw an average of 262,400 new permanent residents.
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In the five years following the pandemic, the Liberals quickly ramped numbers up to an average of 438,000, with a record high of 483,655 in 2024.
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The share of the population considered to be temporary residents reached an incredible 7.5% of the total population.
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The government promised to lower that to below 5%, but as of last July it had only dropped to 6.7%.
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Carney can repeat that immigration is under control as often as he likes.
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His own numbers tell a different story, and Canadians are starting to notice.
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