People will likely get paywalled, but here’s the key info from the article:
>**Canada’s population declined by more than 100,000 people in 2025, marking the first annual decline in records that date back to the 1940s**, as the federal government tries to rein in the number of temporary residents in the country.
>**…The current population stands at 41,472,081 people.**
>**The decline is being driven by a continued exodus of temporary residents from the country**, a result of a series of measures introduced by Ottawa in 2024 and 2025 to curb the number of non-permanent residents in the country.
>…
>“We’re now fully in an era of normalization, with **population growth of around zero expected through 2027, before settling back to a baseline of just under one per cent,**” said Robert Kavcic, senior economist at Bank of Montreal in a Wednesday morning note.
>The Statscan data also showed a sharp **year-over-year decline of almost 20 per cent in the number of permanent resident admissions to Canada,** in line with a target established by the federal government to shrink inflows. Still, new permanent immigrants helped to mitigate the population decline caused by the drop in temporary residents.
The article also says the share of Canada’s population that are temporary residents is now 6.4%, down from a peak of 7.6% in October 2024. The government’s target is to bring that down further to 5% by the end of 2027.
KageyK on
When you are doing 150km/h for 5 hours and then you slow down to 130, you are still speeding.
The question is did we slow down enough?
doughflow on
The same people cheering this on are also the same people who expect to have a fully funded CPP when they retire
MentalSky_ on
Good
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Mindless_Efforts on
Rent is down and housing more affordable. That was mostly the point of doing the drop.
faithOver on
I will be first to admit I didn’t think this would ever be the case despite the proclamations.
Im genuinely surprised.
CipherWeaver on
It went up so much over the past three years that a slight one year decline is still a very large increase over the decade.
StatisticianBoth3480 on
Good.
Calm_Environment5485 on
And yet somehow noone can find a job
Saisinko on
We should be taking advantage of the brain drain in the US as it’s the easiest integration and skill transfer.
That said, while I think fake refugees and asylum seekers exploited the system themselves, I’d argue with TFW it was Canadian businesses that were the culprits.
paddle4 on
Good. Our infrastructure can’t keep up with constant population growth.
pattyG80 on
In fairness, it’s a reversal on ridiculous immigration policies the last few years. People who’s visas are expiring are expected to return home.
noobrainy on
Good. I’m going to guess that population will stay flat as non-permanent residents continue to get booted out over the next couple years.
Carney is slowly fixing the mess.
Big_Option_5575 on
Hooray
imjustawerm on
Good!
I_Dont_Rage_Quit on
Rents have gone down a significant amount here in Vancouver from their peak in 2022. Guess what also went down during all that time…
Tubesocks97 on
Good news until all our infrastructure and services can catch up.
FigureMost1687 on
you cant have high unemployment and high immigration at the same time , people will not accept that . population boomed by 5 million people since 2019 to 2026 . 100 000 less people drop in a bucket since last year . if it was 1 million , that would help to lower high unemployment numbers …immigration needs to stop for at least next 5 years , so economy can recover and unemployment numbers would go down … after that u can bring economic immigrant who will contribute to economy not some tim hortons worker living in basement with 20 others …
xkimo1990 on
TFG
wildemam on
In 18 years the job market will be funny.
myshkiny on
Just curious how many of you cheering population decline because you think it will mean more jobs and cheaper housing for you will come back next year when unemployment is up and housing starts fell off a cliff?
North-Purple-373 on
Still 600k asylum seekers soaking up public tax dollars
GoldenDragonWind on
Oh no, what will all the Tim Hortons and Subways do!
Flamingo4748 on
You mean, slowly getting back to normal?
AssignmentOk2471 on
A good start.. but this is just a smoke screen for the millions more they plan to keep bringing. We’d be better off letting it decline a lot more.
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People will likely get paywalled, but here’s the key info from the article:
>**Canada’s population declined by more than 100,000 people in 2025, marking the first annual decline in records that date back to the 1940s**, as the federal government tries to rein in the number of temporary residents in the country.
>**…The current population stands at 41,472,081 people.**
>**The decline is being driven by a continued exodus of temporary residents from the country**, a result of a series of measures introduced by Ottawa in 2024 and 2025 to curb the number of non-permanent residents in the country.
>…
>“We’re now fully in an era of normalization, with **population growth of around zero expected through 2027, before settling back to a baseline of just under one per cent,**” said Robert Kavcic, senior economist at Bank of Montreal in a Wednesday morning note.
>The Statscan data also showed a sharp **year-over-year decline of almost 20 per cent in the number of permanent resident admissions to Canada,** in line with a target established by the federal government to shrink inflows. Still, new permanent immigrants helped to mitigate the population decline caused by the drop in temporary residents.
The article also says the share of Canada’s population that are temporary residents is now 6.4%, down from a peak of 7.6% in October 2024. The government’s target is to bring that down further to 5% by the end of 2027.
When you are doing 150km/h for 5 hours and then you slow down to 130, you are still speeding.
The question is did we slow down enough?
The same people cheering this on are also the same people who expect to have a fully funded CPP when they retire
Good
[deleted]
Rent is down and housing more affordable. That was mostly the point of doing the drop.
I will be first to admit I didn’t think this would ever be the case despite the proclamations.
Im genuinely surprised.
It went up so much over the past three years that a slight one year decline is still a very large increase over the decade.
Good.
And yet somehow noone can find a job
We should be taking advantage of the brain drain in the US as it’s the easiest integration and skill transfer.
That said, while I think fake refugees and asylum seekers exploited the system themselves, I’d argue with TFW it was Canadian businesses that were the culprits.
Good. Our infrastructure can’t keep up with constant population growth.
In fairness, it’s a reversal on ridiculous immigration policies the last few years. People who’s visas are expiring are expected to return home.
Good. I’m going to guess that population will stay flat as non-permanent residents continue to get booted out over the next couple years.
Carney is slowly fixing the mess.
Hooray
Good!
Rents have gone down a significant amount here in Vancouver from their peak in 2022. Guess what also went down during all that time…
Good news until all our infrastructure and services can catch up.
you cant have high unemployment and high immigration at the same time , people will not accept that . population boomed by 5 million people since 2019 to 2026 . 100 000 less people drop in a bucket since last year . if it was 1 million , that would help to lower high unemployment numbers …immigration needs to stop for at least next 5 years , so economy can recover and unemployment numbers would go down … after that u can bring economic immigrant who will contribute to economy not some tim hortons worker living in basement with 20 others …
TFG
In 18 years the job market will be funny.
Just curious how many of you cheering population decline because you think it will mean more jobs and cheaper housing for you will come back next year when unemployment is up and housing starts fell off a cliff?
Still 600k asylum seekers soaking up public tax dollars
Oh no, what will all the Tim Hortons and Subways do!
You mean, slowly getting back to normal?
A good start.. but this is just a smoke screen for the millions more they plan to keep bringing. We’d be better off letting it decline a lot more.