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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.
torontosun.com
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.
Carney wants more immigration, Canada needs less
The numbers may be down from their peak, but Canada’s immigration system is still far from under control.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Oct 05, 2026 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 4 minute read
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The numbers may be down from their peak, but Canada’s immigration system is still far from under control. Photo by Jack Boland /Toronto Sun
Despite what Mark Carney wants to tell the New York Times, Canada’s immigration system is not under control, and we should not be getting ready to increase numbers again.
In his recent interview with the Times, Carney was discussing Canadian domestic policy in a way he rarely does with Canadians. Asked about immigration by Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury, Carney painted a picture of a system that was out of control under his predecessor but is functioning well again.
“There were years where the expectation would have been for example, 700,000 and it ended up 2 million,” Carney told the Times. “These are big, big overshoots.”
Carney admitted to the Times that Canada’s out-of-control immigration system put pressure on housing, education and more. He went on to discuss how his government cut back on immigration, especially foreign students and temporary foreign workers, and that now the question was how to ramp up immigration numbers again.
“Now the question starts to become: When do we resume some controlled increase in the population, which is the nature of Canada. So that will happen, and we just want to make sure that we’ve got it under control,” Carney said.
I would argue, and the numbers back this up, that immigration in Canada is not under control. While overall intake might be down from an unsustainable peak, it is still well above historical norms.
Still far too high
In 2015, the last year of the Harper Conservative government, Canada brought in 271,000 new permanent residents. When you add in the 219,166 foreign students, the 249,000 people granted temporary work permits and 16,040 asylum seekers, Canada added a total of 755,000 new people.
Fast forward to 2023 and we had 471,000 permanent residents, 682,889 foreign students, 949,270 people given work permits and 144,000 asylum seekers, for a total of 2,247,159. In 2024, we only dropped down to a little over two million and, in 2025, it was 1.1 million.
Even after all the cuts, the 2025 numbers are still 45% higher than they were in 2015. The 2015 numbers had been fairly steady for a decade, and we didn’t have the problems that we do now, problems that even Justin Trudeau said in 2024 were the result of bringing people in faster than we can absorb them.
Given that the country hasn’t fully digested the gluttonous pace of immigration over the past few years, and that the government has no plans to deal with the millions of people whose visas are about to expire, we need to bring these numbers down further.
That’s a point that Conservative MP and party immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner agrees with.
“Immigration levels must go way down, not up. Mark Carney’s government must immediately stop catering to lobby groups who press for mass immigration that depresses wages and increases housing costs,” Rempel Garner said during a news conference last week.
“The Liberals keep allowing too many people in too fast for housing, health care, and jobs to keep up.”
The system is still broken
Permanent resident numbers for 2025 are still 45% higher than a decade ago, foreign student numbers are up 75% and asylum claims, mostly from economic migrants skipping the line, are up sevenfold compared with a decade ago.
The only immigration stream the government appears to have under control is the temporary foreign worker stream, which is back to a level similar to 2015.
“Liberal mass immigration policies have created a youth jobs crisis,” Rempel Garner said. “They’ve caused emergency rooms to overflow, health care waitlists across the country to spiral out of control, have placed massive strain on social welfare programs and provincial education systems, have made rent skyrocket, and have broken Canada’s consensus on immigration.”
In fact, both the current and former Liberal prime ministers have acknowledged key parts of that criticism. Trudeau even said that his policies led to a suppression of wages for workers.
Don’t open the floodgates
And somehow, Carney thinks it’s time to ramp the numbers back up.
Wrong.
Carney needs to bring permanent resident numbers down, closer to the 250,000 figure than the 400,000 figure we are currently hovering around. He needs to bring foreign student numbers back down to historical norms.
Perhaps most importantly, he needs to shut down the abuse of our asylum program so that it is there to help those fleeing war and persecution rather than those trying to skip the immigration line.
Canada’s immigration system used to be the envy of the world. Now it’s a symbol of what not to do. Time for Carney to fix that before he opens the floodgates again.
torontosun.com
The numbers may be down from their peak, but Canada’s immigration system is still far from under control.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Oct 05, 2026 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 4 minute read
100526-0925_tj_immigration
The numbers may be down from their peak, but Canada’s immigration system is still far from under control. Photo by Jack Boland /Toronto Sun
Despite what Mark Carney wants to tell the New York Times, Canada’s immigration system is not under control, and we should not be getting ready to increase numbers again.
In his recent interview with the Times, Carney was discussing Canadian domestic policy in a way he rarely does with Canadians. Asked about immigration by Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury, Carney painted a picture of a system that was out of control under his predecessor but is functioning well again.
“There were years where the expectation would have been for example, 700,000 and it ended up 2 million,” Carney told the Times. “These are big, big overshoots.”
Carney admitted to the Times that Canada’s out-of-control immigration system put pressure on housing, education and more. He went on to discuss how his government cut back on immigration, especially foreign students and temporary foreign workers, and that now the question was how to ramp up immigration numbers again.
“Now the question starts to become: When do we resume some controlled increase in the population, which is the nature of Canada. So that will happen, and we just want to make sure that we’ve got it under control,” Carney said.
I would argue, and the numbers back this up, that immigration in Canada is not under control. While overall intake might be down from an unsustainable peak, it is still well above historical norms.
Still far too high
In 2015, the last year of the Harper Conservative government, Canada brought in 271,000 new permanent residents. When you add in the 219,166 foreign students, the 249,000 people granted temporary work permits and 16,040 asylum seekers, Canada added a total of 755,000 new people.
Fast forward to 2023 and we had 471,000 permanent residents, 682,889 foreign students, 949,270 people given work permits and 144,000 asylum seekers, for a total of 2,247,159. In 2024, we only dropped down to a little over two million and, in 2025, it was 1.1 million.
Even after all the cuts, the 2025 numbers are still 45% higher than they were in 2015. The 2015 numbers had been fairly steady for a decade, and we didn’t have the problems that we do now, problems that even Justin Trudeau said in 2024 were the result of bringing people in faster than we can absorb them.
Given that the country hasn’t fully digested the gluttonous pace of immigration over the past few years, and that the government has no plans to deal with the millions of people whose visas are about to expire, we need to bring these numbers down further.
That’s a point that Conservative MP and party immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner agrees with.
“Immigration levels must go way down, not up. Mark Carney’s government must immediately stop catering to lobby groups who press for mass immigration that depresses wages and increases housing costs,” Rempel Garner said during a news conference last week.
“The Liberals keep allowing too many people in too fast for housing, health care, and jobs to keep up.”
The system is still broken
Permanent resident numbers for 2025 are still 45% higher than a decade ago, foreign student numbers are up 75% and asylum claims, mostly from economic migrants skipping the line, are up sevenfold compared with a decade ago.
The only immigration stream the government appears to have under control is the temporary foreign worker stream, which is back to a level similar to 2015.
“Liberal mass immigration policies have created a youth jobs crisis,” Rempel Garner said. “They’ve caused emergency rooms to overflow, health care waitlists across the country to spiral out of control, have placed massive strain on social welfare programs and provincial education systems, have made rent skyrocket, and have broken Canada’s consensus on immigration.”
In fact, both the current and former Liberal prime ministers have acknowledged key parts of that criticism. Trudeau even said that his policies led to a suppression of wages for workers.
Don’t open the floodgates
And somehow, Carney thinks it’s time to ramp the numbers back up.
Wrong.
Carney needs to bring permanent resident numbers down, closer to the 250,000 figure than the 400,000 figure we are currently hovering around. He needs to bring foreign student numbers back down to historical norms.
Perhaps most importantly, he needs to shut down the abuse of our asylum program so that it is there to help those fleeing war and persecution rather than those trying to skip the immigration line.
Canada’s immigration system used to be the envy of the world. Now it’s a symbol of what not to do. Time for Carney to fix that before he opens the floodgates again.
LILLEY: Carney wants more immigration, Canada needs less
Despite Liberal claims of progress, immigration levels remain well above historical norms. Read on.