Canada did not see historic population decline last year, StatsCan says after second look
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/statistics-canada-population-growth-9.7361422
Canada did not see historic population decline last year, StatsCan says after second look
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/statistics-canada-population-growth-9.7361422
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Finally a sustainable number of growth.
The Liberal Lie.
>The government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau began cutting back on both permanent and temporary immigration after it rapidly increased during the post-pandemic labour shortage.
Love the use of passive language to imply that it randomly increased by itself, but active language to imply that JT stepped in and took action to control it. Did a literal weasel write this article?
That’s quite a second look
The non permanent resident numbers haven’t changed as dramatically as expected either. The big changes in students have been somewhat offset by an increase in asylum seekers.
| Category | Oct. 1, 2024 | July 1, 2026 | Change | % Change |
|—|—:|—:|—:|—:|
| **Total non-permanent residents** | **2,984,285** | **2,779,774** | **-204,511** | **-6.9%** |
| **Asylum claimants, protected persons & related groups** | **429,641** | **530,090** | **+100,449** | **+23.4%** |
| Asylum/protected — work permit only | 277,847 | 357,680 | +79,833 | +28.7% |
| Asylum/protected — study permit only | 2,439 | 2,690 | +251 | +10.3% |
| Asylum/protected — work & study permits | 16,717 | 22,650 | +5,933 | +35.5% |
| Asylum/protected — no work or study permit | 132,638 | 147,070 | +14,432 | +10.9% |
| **Permit holders & their family members** | **2,554,644** | **2,249,684** | **-304,960** | **-11.9%** |
| Work permit holders only | 1,434,113 | 1,496,248 | +62,135 | +4.3% |
| Study permit holders only | 638,083 | 399,133 | -238,950 | -37.4% |
| Work & study permit holders | 335,835 | 220,770 | -115,065 | -34.3% |
| Other | 146,613 | 133,533 | -13,080 | -8.9% |
| **All NPRs with a work permit** | **2,064,512** | **2,097,348** | **+32,836** | **+1.6%** |
| **All NPRs with a study permit** | **993,074** | **645,243** | **-347,831** | **-35.0%** |
| **All NPRs with a work and/or study permit** | **2,705,034** | **2,499,171** | **-205,863** | **-7.6%** |
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710012101&pickMembers%5B0%5D=1.1&cubeTimeFrame.startDaily=2021-10-01&cubeTimeFrame.endDaily=2026-07-01&referencePeriods=20211001%2C20260701
Even if it’s a ‘moderate’ level of population growth, I don’t see how the countries infrastructure can keep up with new arrivals.
Given the time it takes to build and expand certain things like healthcare, I can only see public services getting worse going forward.
Can always try again next year 😄
So they have been lying to us for the last year and a half. Oopsie
These numbers still seem insane. With automation and AI why on earth are we letting in hundreds of thousands. Every immigrant that is not a high skilled professional should be considered a liability.
To the surprise of nobody
Why alienate the other side of the argument when you can just post about it a week later?
Fuck the media, nothing but bullshit and distractions and manipulation
Isn’t Stats Canada supposed to be non political? It looks like they pushed the numbers the government wanted to see despite knowing their estimates might be way off. How much pressure did they get to publish bad data?
Seems like the Liberals have just adopted lying to Canadians as official policy.
As long as they tell people what they want to hear, they can do anything they want in reality.
Affordability may not be the best it’s been in a decade and we’re not going to build 500k homes a year either…
The liberals want Canada’s population to be 100 million by 2100, it’s not going to just happen by magic!
how can it “decline” if we’re bringing in 454,000 PR’s this year and 454,000 PR’s next year?
That’s more than the number of people that will pass away in the same time period.
So, where’s this massive decline? You don’t need to be a statistician to see that there’s no decline.
I wonder if this has to do with Mark Carney slashing STATS Canada funding.
850 senior jobs. When you remove oversight you can get worse quality decisions such as releasing numbers too early.
Shoutout to CIBC for holding Statcan and the Liberal government accountable
Shut the taps off and start strategically removing people. We have put up with this immigration nonsense for too long.