>Some 52% say the country should accept fewer people while 35% believe it should accept the same amount, according to a Nanos Research poll commissioned by Bloomberg News.
>Fewer than one in 10 said Canada should accept more immigrants.
>Slower population growth has led to significant cooling in the housing market, resulting in falling home prices in some communities and more modest rent growth.
>Last year, Canada’s target was to accept 395,000 new permanent residents. It has lowered that to 380,000 for this year and the following two years.
>The federal government is also aiming to bring down the number of temporary work and study visas, setting this year’s targets at 230,000 and 155,000, respectively. Next year’s figures are reduced again, by 10,000 workers and 5,000 students.
>The Nanos poll shows respondents in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba were most likely to say they want fewer immigrants accepted, while British Columbians were more likely to say they want the same amount of new immigrants allowed into the country next year.
BlueYokoWorld on
why is this news? Our previous immigration levels were unsustainable. At 14% youth unemployment and a declining birth rate for the native population (Naturalized Canadians from all different ethnicities), it seems like we have bigger issues we need to focus on.
I immigrated here in the 90s and am almost 40 now. Only about 15-20% of the people I knew growing up here had a child, and most only have 1. Many want more but they cant afford it.
Levorotatory on
The end of excessively rapid population growth indicates that we have successfully lowered immigration. Now that the numbers are good, we need to review the system to ensure we are selecting the best quality applicants.
N3rdScool on
We want to be able to afford rent and groceries again lol
Ok_Persimmon1385 on
Yes we do.
Geistlingster on
We don’t want “lower immigration” – we just want people that integrate, respect social norms, learn the the local language and not commit crimes. Bonus if they don’t poo on public transit.
Edit- I guarantee, if the above happened, this anti immigrant sentiment  would not be as highÂ
Angry_beaver_1867 on
They cut immigration and housing prices immediately began falling. Â
While correlations don’t always equal causation. In this case the cause seems very clear.Â
616ThatGuy on
Good. I have no problem with immigration and people coming here. But right now we can’t support more people. Not enough housing so prices are skyrocketing. Rent has more than doubled since we I moved out on my own 15 years ago.
And we don’t have job for everyone. 15% youth unemployment? That’s insane. We need to slow things down, get our situation figured out, then we can talk about letting people in again in a few years. Because currently our system isn’t sustainable.
Matt2937 on
End all commercial ownership of residential single family dwellings as well as foreign ownership. I would say go further, but start there and see where it goes first.
emmadonelsense on
It was never growth, it’d be better described as infrastructure exhaustion and population abuse. So yeah, I hope it stalls, then goes backwards, so we have a chance in hell of things getting back to some semblance of normalcy.
Saisinko on
Most people are jaded about immigration because it was seemingly from one region of the world instead of true diversity, we have people exploiting refugee/asylum claims and suddenly becoming gay so it’s unsafe to return home, fake diplomas mills, and minorities are most readily apparently in Dollarama, Canadian Tire, Timmies, Ubereats, security, and other low skill or non-priority occupations.
At the same time, I believe we should be blaming businesses for bad faith TFW hiring practices rather than minorities themselves, who are likely exploited as well. I actually feel like we should be retroactively punishing these businesses.
Wind_Best_1440 on
Immigration should be kept 1:1 for Births in Canada, you want more immigration find ways for Canadians to have children.
AJMGuitar on
I’m fine with immigration I just don’t want it all from the same place.
t0mless on
Yes, because nobody can afford anything lmao
gianni_ on
We want our systems working in order for us, the people paying for it, and adding more people won’t do that!
tinyfred on
Population growth stalls when people feel they can’t afford to have children and own a home. That’s where we need to put our effort into.
UseYourIndoorVoice on
We even want food we can afford, and the ability to not have to decide if we short the water bill or hydro so we can pay rent and those ridiculous groceries.
How unreasonable of us.
princedubacon on
Can we stop handing Permanent residency to people who haven’t even set foot in Canada yet?
North-Purple-373 on
Still 600k asylum seekers soaking up tax dollars
DreadpirateBG on
We need things to move to the favour of the buyer vs the seller. In favour of the employe not the employer for a while. Only way to do that is to not have a glut of new immigration. Let employers struggle to get people for a bit. Then maybe they will have to adjust their hiring practices a bit and maybe pay better with better benefits.
exotics on
It’s so funny. I know a girl whose mom had 13 kids. This girl has 4 kids so far and wants to have 2 more. She complains about immigration adding too many people. Lol.
ResolveNo3113 on
Am I supposed to care about population growth?
aegiszx on
Lower immigration, lower taxes whilst simulatenously wanting highest quality of life and jobs lol
Gold_Composer7556 on
No shit. Immigration has been too high lately. We need a break so our infrastructure and economy can catch up. Then we can increase it again. This time to reasonable levels.
happypenguin460 on
So what exactly is a negative of lower immigration and population growth? Lower house prices, less competition for jobs, less congestion, less pressure on social services….. what’s the issue? Legitimately asking.
hyterus on
Quality over quantity!
Javaddict on
“Immigration” is too blanket a term. Focus specifically on the TFW program, student VISAS, “asylum seekers”, and the thousands who are still here illegally long after their time has expired.
That’s not at all the same as the process for accepting PRs and new citizens, although I think there is a worthwhile discussion to have regarding family and parental PR sponsorships.
Turtle_Dude on
I want to be able to go to the emergency room without dying because of long wait times…
chewwydraper on
I keep hearing how we need population growth but all I’ve seen come out of it so far are higher prices, more food bank usage, housing and rent costs skyrocketing, wait times at hospitals and healthcare resources strained, 100+ applicants per job posting, stagnant wages…
Seriously who is population growth benefiting? Retirees and no one else?
JohnDorian0506 on
I guess the government doesn’t really care about what Canadians want. Because we are still getting 475k new PRs plus 230k TWF in 2026.
salt989 on
Are the millions (5M expired/expiring 2025-2026) of temp workers, students and visitors on expiring/expired permits actually leaving? Or are many staying and waiting/hoping for PR one day.
The government is saying population growth has stalled last year and will stay near zero until 2028 but that is dependent on everyone leaving when they’re supposed to and they don’t actually keep track of that.
myairblaster on
The nations that cap immigration and block foreign, low-skilled workers from their job markets will be the best able to respond to the wave of change that AI will bring.
rurkob on
we also want remigration for every fake refugee put in a hotel who takes vacations to their country that they “fled”Â
WinterSkeleton on
Central banker as their leader lol, banks can’t have less people they need the tax money, just cattle for the country
YendorWons on
We’ve already mainstreamed MAID so do we really need to import an underclass to support our boomers??
SomeDuncanGuy on
If we can’t invest enough into improving infrastructure (schools, housing, hospitals, etc) and what we have isn’t sufficient for the current population, it makes sense that this is how people feel.
CommercialReveal7888 on
As a Punjabi myself the Liberals exploiting TFW to keep wages low has cause extreme amounts of racism. Life under Harper was great, Sikhs had an amazing reputation in Canada earned by decades of hard work by our parents.
This was destroyed in a short 12 years by the Liberals who saw us as a easy way to break the wage price spiral cause by sending hundred of billion in corporate welfare to wealthy white families who own Canada.
Xivvx on
Make things more affordable and you’ll get more people.
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>Some 52% say the country should accept fewer people while 35% believe it should accept the same amount, according to a Nanos Research poll commissioned by Bloomberg News.
>Fewer than one in 10 said Canada should accept more immigrants.
>Slower population growth has led to significant cooling in the housing market, resulting in falling home prices in some communities and more modest rent growth.
>Last year, Canada’s target was to accept 395,000 new permanent residents. It has lowered that to 380,000 for this year and the following two years.
>The federal government is also aiming to bring down the number of temporary work and study visas, setting this year’s targets at 230,000 and 155,000, respectively. Next year’s figures are reduced again, by 10,000 workers and 5,000 students.
>The Nanos poll shows respondents in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba were most likely to say they want fewer immigrants accepted, while British Columbians were more likely to say they want the same amount of new immigrants allowed into the country next year.
why is this news? Our previous immigration levels were unsustainable. At 14% youth unemployment and a declining birth rate for the native population (Naturalized Canadians from all different ethnicities), it seems like we have bigger issues we need to focus on.
I immigrated here in the 90s and am almost 40 now. Only about 15-20% of the people I knew growing up here had a child, and most only have 1. Many want more but they cant afford it.
The end of excessively rapid population growth indicates that we have successfully lowered immigration. Now that the numbers are good, we need to review the system to ensure we are selecting the best quality applicants.
We want to be able to afford rent and groceries again lol
Yes we do.
We don’t want “lower immigration” – we just want people that integrate, respect social norms, learn the the local language and not commit crimes. Bonus if they don’t poo on public transit.
Edit- I guarantee, if the above happened, this anti immigrant sentiment  would not be as highÂ
They cut immigration and housing prices immediately began falling. Â
While correlations don’t always equal causation. In this case the cause seems very clear.Â
Good. I have no problem with immigration and people coming here. But right now we can’t support more people. Not enough housing so prices are skyrocketing. Rent has more than doubled since we I moved out on my own 15 years ago.
And we don’t have job for everyone. 15% youth unemployment? That’s insane. We need to slow things down, get our situation figured out, then we can talk about letting people in again in a few years. Because currently our system isn’t sustainable.
End all commercial ownership of residential single family dwellings as well as foreign ownership. I would say go further, but start there and see where it goes first.
It was never growth, it’d be better described as infrastructure exhaustion and population abuse. So yeah, I hope it stalls, then goes backwards, so we have a chance in hell of things getting back to some semblance of normalcy.
Most people are jaded about immigration because it was seemingly from one region of the world instead of true diversity, we have people exploiting refugee/asylum claims and suddenly becoming gay so it’s unsafe to return home, fake diplomas mills, and minorities are most readily apparently in Dollarama, Canadian Tire, Timmies, Ubereats, security, and other low skill or non-priority occupations.
At the same time, I believe we should be blaming businesses for bad faith TFW hiring practices rather than minorities themselves, who are likely exploited as well. I actually feel like we should be retroactively punishing these businesses.
Immigration should be kept 1:1 for Births in Canada, you want more immigration find ways for Canadians to have children.
I’m fine with immigration I just don’t want it all from the same place.
Yes, because nobody can afford anything lmao
We want our systems working in order for us, the people paying for it, and adding more people won’t do that!
Population growth stalls when people feel they can’t afford to have children and own a home. That’s where we need to put our effort into.
We even want food we can afford, and the ability to not have to decide if we short the water bill or hydro so we can pay rent and those ridiculous groceries.
How unreasonable of us.
Can we stop handing Permanent residency to people who haven’t even set foot in Canada yet?
Still 600k asylum seekers soaking up tax dollars
We need things to move to the favour of the buyer vs the seller. In favour of the employe not the employer for a while. Only way to do that is to not have a glut of new immigration. Let employers struggle to get people for a bit. Then maybe they will have to adjust their hiring practices a bit and maybe pay better with better benefits.
It’s so funny. I know a girl whose mom had 13 kids. This girl has 4 kids so far and wants to have 2 more. She complains about immigration adding too many people. Lol.
Am I supposed to care about population growth?
Lower immigration, lower taxes whilst simulatenously wanting highest quality of life and jobs lol
No shit. Immigration has been too high lately. We need a break so our infrastructure and economy can catch up. Then we can increase it again. This time to reasonable levels.
So what exactly is a negative of lower immigration and population growth? Lower house prices, less competition for jobs, less congestion, less pressure on social services….. what’s the issue? Legitimately asking.
Quality over quantity!
“Immigration” is too blanket a term. Focus specifically on the TFW program, student VISAS, “asylum seekers”, and the thousands who are still here illegally long after their time has expired.
That’s not at all the same as the process for accepting PRs and new citizens, although I think there is a worthwhile discussion to have regarding family and parental PR sponsorships.
I want to be able to go to the emergency room without dying because of long wait times…
I keep hearing how we need population growth but all I’ve seen come out of it so far are higher prices, more food bank usage, housing and rent costs skyrocketing, wait times at hospitals and healthcare resources strained, 100+ applicants per job posting, stagnant wages…
Seriously who is population growth benefiting? Retirees and no one else?
I guess the government doesn’t really care about what Canadians want. Because we are still getting 475k new PRs plus 230k TWF in 2026.
Are the millions (5M expired/expiring 2025-2026) of temp workers, students and visitors on expiring/expired permits actually leaving? Or are many staying and waiting/hoping for PR one day.
The government is saying population growth has stalled last year and will stay near zero until 2028 but that is dependent on everyone leaving when they’re supposed to and they don’t actually keep track of that.
The nations that cap immigration and block foreign, low-skilled workers from their job markets will be the best able to respond to the wave of change that AI will bring.
we also want remigration for every fake refugee put in a hotel who takes vacations to their country that they “fled”Â
Central banker as their leader lol, banks can’t have less people they need the tax money, just cattle for the country
We’ve already mainstreamed MAID so do we really need to import an underclass to support our boomers??
If we can’t invest enough into improving infrastructure (schools, housing, hospitals, etc) and what we have isn’t sufficient for the current population, it makes sense that this is how people feel.
As a Punjabi myself the Liberals exploiting TFW to keep wages low has cause extreme amounts of racism. Life under Harper was great, Sikhs had an amazing reputation in Canada earned by decades of hard work by our parents.
This was destroyed in a short 12 years by the Liberals who saw us as a easy way to break the wage price spiral cause by sending hundred of billion in corporate welfare to wealthy white families who own Canada.
Make things more affordable and you’ll get more people.