Canada sees sharp decline in international students and temporary worker arrivals in 2026. Here’s how much the numbers have dropped

Students really is a misnomer. Let’s be real both sides were conning each other.

One gave an “”education”” and the other was hoping to make a permanent move by getting their foot in the door with one of these fraudulent diploma mills.

The people who shout “this is fake!” Are about to swarm this thread.

This is great, but the problem is that as soon as the economy starts to improve and the unemployment rates drop, the immigration floodgates will be opened once again and we’ll be back in the same situation.

The liberals still want mass immigration, they’re just temporary slowing it down because it’s become politically unpopular.

Dramatically increasing immigration (whether that involved students or temporary workers) was the wrong way to solve problems. Doing so overwhelmed social and public services and resources, including healthcare and education. It pit people against one another

But the underlying problems that immigration was supposed to address still need to be fixed. The population is getting older, the tax base is shifting, and more people will be using services and drawing down investments

If we’re not careful we’ll start pitting generations against each other. Older people will say that they paid into systems and deserve a comfortable retirement. Younger people will point to decades of underfunding and resent paying for programs from which they may never benefit

We need to take a sober and honest look at our situation and take the longer view. We need to pull together as Canadians and put together a cogent list of priorities and thoughtfully accept compromises

Trudeau was utterly wrong and reckless in superficially extending compassion to the world and welcoming everyone without having a plan or resources to actually help them

Trudeau was utterly wrong in just believing that the economy would take care of itself and that we would just grow our way out of deficits and debts

Let’s make sure not to repeat those same mistakes

Good.

Should drop by 99%, except for students that are going to like 10 accredited universities.

Like coming to Waterloo Engineering? Ok.
Coming to Conestoga college anything? No. Visa denied.
Coming to Brampton Harvard Stanford Canada college beside the gas station in the strip mall? Visa not even considered.

99% reduction.

I mean, they did bring like $30 Billion dollars to the economy in 2023. The narrative that international students were just locusts consuming resources isnt exactly fair.

Numbers are not down , they are down from sky high numbers of 2024 , these articles are just click bait ones , these numbers u see still higher than pre covid times . Liberals are just playing number games here with u so u can cool off . Int Student , TFW and immigration must stop for next 5 years meaning 0 admittance until unemployment numbers for youth and regular are under 4% . then u can restart with high earners and investors only immigration. there are still 2 million TFW and int students in the country , why do we need them when our own sons and daughters cant evet get a job at Tim Hortons …

Weird title .. Didn’t the federal government reduce the allowed international student visa allotments per province in late 2024 and this is a direct result of it??

That is like saying, we’re reducing a Hotel’s bedroom capacity by 50% and then 2 years later, an article comes out sand says 50% reduction in Hotel guests and signups.

Having international students as a business is a legitimate course of action. Having a weak link and employers / students gaming the system to stay in canada is NOT. There needs to be a balance somehow. I really don’t know what it is.

This pendulum effect of we need more STEM / HEalthcare / support workers / skilled trades / labour with fair wages on one end to our youth are unemployed and unmotivated to pursue post secondary education because there are no concrete opportunities needs to balance out somehow. The feds / provinces are slow to react. LAbour market is slow to catch up to labour demand, and we have a social safety net that was built to impact the one who need it but tragically it has expanded now to people who are gaming the system.

Finally, wage disparity and reduction of entry jobs market and slowing down of boomer and Gen X exits. All in all, we have 41 Million people in Canada now, we need to spur up business growth so that high paying jobs become more prevalent at conditions and future careers that the youth want to participate in.

A balance is needed. Not sure how to get there.

For this not to be almost predatory there needs to be proper financial background checks on the students. If foreign students are taking large amounts of loans to pay for their education, you can bet that they will be looking for jobs in Canada during or soon after they finish school. How else will they pay off their loans? If they come from developing countries chances are they won’t be able to find a job in their home countries that will pay enough to allow them to pay off their educational loans.

It’s a drop in new arrivals. We want to see a reversal year on year, to undo the damage done by Trudeau, which we will never see regardless. 

Can we send some of the ones that already got in back home?

Thanks, Mark!

Excellent start, let’s keep working on it so it gets to a reasonable level finally.

Then our kids have a change to get jobs and businesses lose this delusion only they deserve to profit.

If it wasn’t 0 then its not enough.