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Despite Carney's claims, Canada's immigration numbers largely unchanged
Federal government continuing more or less along same path as under Trudeau
Author of the article:Lorne Gunter
Published Oct 03, 2026 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 3 minute read
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, September 18, 2026.
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, September 18, 2026. Photo by Blair Gable /Postmedia file
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government announced — or rather boasted — that they had brought immigration under control after the open-floodgate Trudeau years. In 2025 the national population, they claimed, shrank by 102,000 people, the first decline since Confederation.
The problem is, the claim was untrue.
Rather than shrinking by 102,000, Canada’s population actually rose by 280,000 last year, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. That’s a shift of 382,000.
That fault is not entirely the Liberal government’s.
The earlier figure also came from StatCan, but didn’t include estimates for temporary residents such as students, temporary workers, visitors and others who had outstayed their visas.
The federal government is very bad at keeping track of those people whose various visas have expired but who don’t leave the country.
After a re-estimate of how many people had stayed longer than their best-before date, StatCan revised the 2025 population upwards by just under 400,000 bodies.
What they Liberal government is guilty of is seizing on the earlier, lower numbers to show they have heeded Canadians voters and brought immigration under control.
No they haven’t.
In their first budget last fall, the Carney government pledged to bring in just 385,000 temporary residents in 2026, a drop of more than 40 per cent from the 2025 target. That number, the government claimed, would be further reduced to 370,000 in 2027 and 2028.
This is significant because mass immigration is seen as one of the main reasons emergency rooms are jam-packed and it takes hours and hours to see a doctor. It explains why more than six million Canadians do not have a family doctor, why classrooms often have 30 or 40 students and why buying a house remains out of reach for so many young Canadians.
In reality, though, the Liberals have not brought immigration under control, or at least not by much.
The numbers cited above are just for temporary residents. Last year, the federal government also granted entry to nearly 400,000 new permanent residents — people who, from the start, are placed on a citizen-track trajectory. They have no dates by which they must leave.
Altogether, of course, that means almost 800,000 residents were added last year. Those are Trudeau-like levels.
In just the four years between 2022 and 2025 — Canada’s population surged by 2.8 million people from nearly 39,000,000 million to nearly 42,000,000. That’s an overall increase of 7.5 per cent.
More importantly, that’s an increase of about 800,000 a year, the same level the Carney government is so self-pleased with.
Also important is the realization that when the 2025 numbers are corrected, the unemployment rate goes from 6.4 per cent to closer to 7.1 per cent. And far from rising by nearly three-quarters of a per cent, per capita GDP — the measure of Canadians standard of living — declined by one per cent.
Far from solving the economic and government-service problems caused by super-high immigration, the Carney government is continuing more or less along the same path as the Trudeau government.
Even though levels of new temporary residents is three times higher than claimed by the Carney Liberals and, according to Tristin Hopper at the National Post “one in every 16 people in Canada has arrived in the country within the last three years,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told the New York Times last week, “Now the question starts to become, when do we resume some controlled increase in the population, which is the nature of Canada?” It “will happen, and we just want to make sure we’ve got it under control.”
But they don’t have it under control. And I think they are ideologically incapable of bringing it under control.
Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, for instance, has been an enthusiastic member of the Century Initiative to increase our population to 100 million by the end of the century. That would require annual population growth of 792,000, almost exactly the number the Liberals are admitting now.
Don’t expect meaningful control under a Liberal government.
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Federal government continuing more or less along same path as under Trudeau
Author of the article:Lorne Gunter
Published Oct 03, 2026 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 3 minute read
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, September 18, 2026.
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, September 18, 2026. Photo by Blair Gable /Postmedia file
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government announced — or rather boasted — that they had brought immigration under control after the open-floodgate Trudeau years. In 2025 the national population, they claimed, shrank by 102,000 people, the first decline since Confederation.
The problem is, the claim was untrue.
Rather than shrinking by 102,000, Canada’s population actually rose by 280,000 last year, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. That’s a shift of 382,000.
That fault is not entirely the Liberal government’s.
The earlier figure also came from StatCan, but didn’t include estimates for temporary residents such as students, temporary workers, visitors and others who had outstayed their visas.
The federal government is very bad at keeping track of those people whose various visas have expired but who don’t leave the country.
After a re-estimate of how many people had stayed longer than their best-before date, StatCan revised the 2025 population upwards by just under 400,000 bodies.
What they Liberal government is guilty of is seizing on the earlier, lower numbers to show they have heeded Canadians voters and brought immigration under control.
No they haven’t.
In their first budget last fall, the Carney government pledged to bring in just 385,000 temporary residents in 2026, a drop of more than 40 per cent from the 2025 target. That number, the government claimed, would be further reduced to 370,000 in 2027 and 2028.
This is significant because mass immigration is seen as one of the main reasons emergency rooms are jam-packed and it takes hours and hours to see a doctor. It explains why more than six million Canadians do not have a family doctor, why classrooms often have 30 or 40 students and why buying a house remains out of reach for so many young Canadians.
In reality, though, the Liberals have not brought immigration under control, or at least not by much.
The numbers cited above are just for temporary residents. Last year, the federal government also granted entry to nearly 400,000 new permanent residents — people who, from the start, are placed on a citizen-track trajectory. They have no dates by which they must leave.
Altogether, of course, that means almost 800,000 residents were added last year. Those are Trudeau-like levels.
In just the four years between 2022 and 2025 — Canada’s population surged by 2.8 million people from nearly 39,000,000 million to nearly 42,000,000. That’s an overall increase of 7.5 per cent.
More importantly, that’s an increase of about 800,000 a year, the same level the Carney government is so self-pleased with.
Also important is the realization that when the 2025 numbers are corrected, the unemployment rate goes from 6.4 per cent to closer to 7.1 per cent. And far from rising by nearly three-quarters of a per cent, per capita GDP — the measure of Canadians standard of living — declined by one per cent.
Far from solving the economic and government-service problems caused by super-high immigration, the Carney government is continuing more or less along the same path as the Trudeau government.
Even though levels of new temporary residents is three times higher than claimed by the Carney Liberals and, according to Tristin Hopper at the National Post “one in every 16 people in Canada has arrived in the country within the last three years,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told the New York Times last week, “Now the question starts to become, when do we resume some controlled increase in the population, which is the nature of Canada?” It “will happen, and we just want to make sure we’ve got it under control.”
But they don’t have it under control. And I think they are ideologically incapable of bringing it under control.
Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, for instance, has been an enthusiastic member of the Century Initiative to increase our population to 100 million by the end of the century. That would require annual population growth of 792,000, almost exactly the number the Liberals are admitting now.
Don’t expect meaningful control under a Liberal government.
Lorne Gunter: Despite Carney's claims, Canada's immigration numbers largely unchanged
The Liberals have not brought immigration under control, or at least not by much.
