>The 2026 target of 380,000 new permanent residents is a slight drop from the 395,000 accepted in 2025 and a major shift from 2024, when more than 483,000 were welcomed. The number of new permanent residents is set to remain at 380,000 through 2028.
Not even close to cutting enough.
igg73 on
Jesus this country is fucked at this rate
Felon_musk1939 on
Stop patronizing all companies that take advantage of the TFW program and take jobs away from Canadians. The politicians are beholden to these corporations and will always bow to their whims. This is truly late stage capitalism where corporations become more powerful than Government
Take away their money through consumer power. Stop going to these places. Businesses don’t need to exist at the expense of others.
UninvestedCuriosity on
The college’s have another year until the pipes get turned back on and they are pretty much depending on it at this point from what I can tell. It’ll be another lag year for them fighting their own labour force non stop to reduce cost due to quarter to quarter planning.
The support staff strikes have triggered a lot of negative behaviors from execs that haven’t been fully realized yet so it’s still going to be an uphill battle for staff as executives continue to bare down on regular folk and there is a cloud of frustration inside the institutions. The grudges are strong.
Not really any safe havens left. Government, credit unions, academia. It’s all poisoned now and the environments are pretty toxic. I’ve heard bad things about power generation utility as well. Hard for skilled people to find just even tolerable places to work anymore. These used to be places you could aspire to be for making a living without so much rat racing as in the private sector. Not anymore. It has become even more vicious somehow.
kemar7856 on
395000 to 380000 just 3%
Rey123x on
We need to send more out before bringing more in. Plain and simple.
CatchUpBud on
It’s just entertaining at this point
lostdawnking on
I can’t understand liberal voters whining and crying in the comments, you dumb fools voted for this and now the liberals continue to do what they have been doing you guys are like “how did that happen!”…go figure!
pyfinx on
Diversity is the key. But if 50% of newcomers are from the same country/region that’s not diversity.
dashokeykokey on
What’s the general feeling about skilled immigrants? I’m quite literally at Heathrow coming over to work as an aerospace engineer as a TFW with a view to PR. Lots of noise on the press and in this sub is making me a little nervous 😬🤣
freddie79 on
So just a few less food delivery scooters on the road in 2026?
log1ck1717 on
Before covid, Niagra Falls was comfortable to go to with a healthy diverse pool of people and being generally respectful. I recently went again, I forgot what country I was in, and it was so packed shoulder to shoulder and people were rude as hell. I’m sure we don’t mind immigration, but it shouldn’t all be from one country, let alone the volume it has been. The reduction should be at least 50% of that and have a cap from each country and based on skills we ACTUALLY need.
slumlordscanstarve on
We need more done and this won’t be enough. End birth tourism and duel/multiple citizenships where people are cheating the system.
Envoymetal on
Bullshit. I’ll be retiring elsewhere. We’re so fucked.
-isthisnametaken on
Weak men make hard times, welcome to the hard times. We earned what is to come.
Fun_Office5837 on
Canada should allow immigration only for specific skills like healthcare or agricultural labour for few years. There is high unemployment in most of the other fields including IT. AI will anyways change job market a lot in near future.
Also, there should be country based cap to ensure true diversity.
ZooberFry on
Whatever the governments targets are, I can assure you they aren’t enough. I don’t even have to look at the numbers to know that.
GoldenxGriffin on
“Slash” 😂😂😂😂 Y’all voted for this nonsense no point in acting suprised
toilet_for_shrek on
The number of permanent residents is still quite high. I think something in the 200K range would be better to continue offsetting the insane glut that was allowed in under Trudeau.
The massive reduction in new international students and foreign workers is a good step in the right direction though. I wish they’d straight up ban foreign workers from fast food or retail jobs though.
AliasCapricious on
I actually find it funny that so many people think they have a great contribution to the country. Most of us don’t. From an economic standpoint, you and I are most likely roughly equal to an average immigrant. Most jobs, after all, are BS jobs.
So if you are using healthcare, you’re basically the same as an immigrant using healthcare. Same with other infrastructure. You’re not a superior human being just because you’re born here.
Quality immigrants actually create more businesses and do more entrepreneurship, things the country desperately needs. The key word is quality – which the country dropped the ball during the few years post COVID. I’m fairly certain we are going back to the previous formula though.
The main thing I agree with is to culturally integrate newcomers better for better social harmony and maintain our values. Economically however a productive human is a productive human, regardless where they are from.
I say this as someone gainfully employed and paying taxes, citizens and all.
SilentEngineering638 on
Should be 100k and with limit per country to ensure diversity like the US does
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>The 2026 target of 380,000 new permanent residents is a slight drop from the 395,000 accepted in 2025 and a major shift from 2024, when more than 483,000 were welcomed. The number of new permanent residents is set to remain at 380,000 through 2028.
Not even close to cutting enough.
Jesus this country is fucked at this rate
Stop patronizing all companies that take advantage of the TFW program and take jobs away from Canadians. The politicians are beholden to these corporations and will always bow to their whims. This is truly late stage capitalism where corporations become more powerful than Government
Take away their money through consumer power. Stop going to these places. Businesses don’t need to exist at the expense of others.
The college’s have another year until the pipes get turned back on and they are pretty much depending on it at this point from what I can tell. It’ll be another lag year for them fighting their own labour force non stop to reduce cost due to quarter to quarter planning.
The support staff strikes have triggered a lot of negative behaviors from execs that haven’t been fully realized yet so it’s still going to be an uphill battle for staff as executives continue to bare down on regular folk and there is a cloud of frustration inside the institutions. The grudges are strong.
Not really any safe havens left. Government, credit unions, academia. It’s all poisoned now and the environments are pretty toxic. I’ve heard bad things about power generation utility as well. Hard for skilled people to find just even tolerable places to work anymore. These used to be places you could aspire to be for making a living without so much rat racing as in the private sector. Not anymore. It has become even more vicious somehow.
395000 to 380000 just 3%
We need to send more out before bringing more in. Plain and simple.
It’s just entertaining at this point
I can’t understand liberal voters whining and crying in the comments, you dumb fools voted for this and now the liberals continue to do what they have been doing you guys are like “how did that happen!”…go figure!
Diversity is the key. But if 50% of newcomers are from the same country/region that’s not diversity.
What’s the general feeling about skilled immigrants? I’m quite literally at Heathrow coming over to work as an aerospace engineer as a TFW with a view to PR. Lots of noise on the press and in this sub is making me a little nervous 😬🤣
So just a few less food delivery scooters on the road in 2026?
Before covid, Niagra Falls was comfortable to go to with a healthy diverse pool of people and being generally respectful. I recently went again, I forgot what country I was in, and it was so packed shoulder to shoulder and people were rude as hell. I’m sure we don’t mind immigration, but it shouldn’t all be from one country, let alone the volume it has been. The reduction should be at least 50% of that and have a cap from each country and based on skills we ACTUALLY need.
We need more done and this won’t be enough. End birth tourism and duel/multiple citizenships where people are cheating the system.
Bullshit. I’ll be retiring elsewhere. We’re so fucked.
Weak men make hard times, welcome to the hard times. We earned what is to come.
Canada should allow immigration only for specific skills like healthcare or agricultural labour for few years. There is high unemployment in most of the other fields including IT. AI will anyways change job market a lot in near future.
Also, there should be country based cap to ensure true diversity.
Whatever the governments targets are, I can assure you they aren’t enough. I don’t even have to look at the numbers to know that.
“Slash” 😂😂😂😂 Y’all voted for this nonsense no point in acting suprised
The number of permanent residents is still quite high. I think something in the 200K range would be better to continue offsetting the insane glut that was allowed in under Trudeau.
The massive reduction in new international students and foreign workers is a good step in the right direction though. I wish they’d straight up ban foreign workers from fast food or retail jobs though.
I actually find it funny that so many people think they have a great contribution to the country. Most of us don’t. From an economic standpoint, you and I are most likely roughly equal to an average immigrant. Most jobs, after all, are BS jobs.
So if you are using healthcare, you’re basically the same as an immigrant using healthcare. Same with other infrastructure. You’re not a superior human being just because you’re born here.
Quality immigrants actually create more businesses and do more entrepreneurship, things the country desperately needs. The key word is quality – which the country dropped the ball during the few years post COVID. I’m fairly certain we are going back to the previous formula though.
The main thing I agree with is to culturally integrate newcomers better for better social harmony and maintain our values. Economically however a productive human is a productive human, regardless where they are from.
I say this as someone gainfully employed and paying taxes, citizens and all.
Should be 100k and with limit per country to ensure diversity like the US does