Considering what humans, and especially governments have done to ourselves and every other lifeform on earth, I see their point.
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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.
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
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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.
LILLEY: Carney wants more immigration, Canada needs less
Despite Liberal claims of progress, immigration levels remain well above historical norms. Read on.
Federal government advertising that door is wide open to foreign workers
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada post puts call out for 'experienced skilled workers' to come to Canada
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Oct 15, 2026 • 4 minute read
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi. Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN /AFP
Reminiscent of former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s famous social media invitation a decade ago, Canada’s “come on in” welcome sign has again been placed in the country’s front window to entice foreign workers.
As funding for private college students’ loans in Ontario are on hold amid a financial audit and some high-profile industries lay off staff, the federal government is recruiting international labour to move to Canada.
“Are you an experienced skilled worker interested in immigrating to Canada and strengthening key sectors of our economy?” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada posted on X.
This came at a time when Canada had a 6.5% national unemployment rate and more companies were moving to the United States or saying they have to close as a result of the tariff war.
The narrative is a few weeks removed from Prime Minister Mark Carney meeting with the European Union on Canada potentially becoming an “associate member.”
Will Canadians get to vote on immigration increases?
Canadians, meanwhile, have not voted on more immigration or becoming quasi-European. The IRCC post reminds us of Trudeau’s “to those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you” post in 2017.
Many came to Canada, but not all legally.
And now with a Canadian delegation led by Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, who met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of a confirmed visit to Canada on Dec. 11 and 12, and International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu in India talking about new partnerships and investments pops up a drive to seduce more immigrants to Canada.
“We’re looking to address labour shortages and support communities through the following categories: Medical doctors, researchers and senior managers with Canadian work experience, health-care and social services professionals, tradespersons, educators, professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupations, professionals in transport occupations, workers with French-language proficiency,” said a federal government notice.
We don’t have anyone who can do those jobs here? Of course we do. What happened to all of those Canadian university and college graduates or the millions of new Canadians who have already been brought in? None of them are qualified? Of course, they are.
Growing Canada to 100 million residents?
After signalling Canada is reducing immigration numbers from the Trudeau era, the Carney government may also be signalling that bigger immigration goals are on the horizon.
Canada has had massive immigration numbers over the last decade and the Indian high commissioner told the CBC this week that the country needs even more immigrants over the next decade.
“You are the second largest country in the world with a 40-million population,” High Commissioner Dinesh K. Patnaik told the CBC in February. “You need at least over 100 million population. You need people to man many of your resources. We have the capacity, we have the intellect, we have the talent, we have the resources.”
‘Things will happen fast’
While many people feel he should mind his own business, he reiterated those thoughts this week on CPAC, saying “this is a new Canada and we are anticipating that things will happen fast. And Prime Minister Carney, given his background as the governor of two banks … as well as Brookfield, his experience with investment with the economy, there is a lot of trust that he will be able to deliver on a lot of the things.”
According to the Financial Post, Sidhu said Modi and Carney have also “set an ambitious target to go from $30 billion to $70 billion” in trade by 2030.
Indian High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh Patnaik
Indian High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh Patnaik speaks at the Energy Security Summit at the Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa March 10, 2026. BLAIR GABLE/POSTMEDIA NEWS
Meanwhile, the 100-million population narrative came weeks after Carney met with the European Union about Canada potentially becoming an associate EU member.
Perhaps offering insight into what the future could hold, Patnaik added that “Canada is a country of 42 million people (and) your workforce is reducing every year … Prime Minister Carney is looking at an investment of $1 trillion into the economy over the next 10 years or so,” he said, adding that means “you need to create 15 million jobs in this country in the next 10 years” to supplement a “21-million workforce that is reducing every year by 186,000 (people).”
As the Toronto Sun‘s Brian Lilley wrote this week, “in 2015, the last year of the (Stephen) Harper Conservative government, Canada brought in 271,000 new permanent residents,” which he said added up to 755,000 new arrivals with the “219,166 foreign students, 249,000 people granted temporary work permits and 16,040 asylum seekers.
By 2023 during Trudeau’s reign, Lilley reported Canada “had 471,000 permanent residents, 682,889 foreign students, 949,270 people given work permits and 144,000 asylum seekers,” which added up to 2,247,159 people coming into Canada. In 2024, it dipped to two million, while in 2025 it was 1.1 million.
Now Carney has hinted that it’s time to ramp things back up.
“There were years where the expectation would have been, for example, 700,000 and it ended up two million … These are big, big overshoots,” he told the New York Times. “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.”
Canada having a population of 100 million people by 2036 will not be easy to control. No matter how many answer this new IRCC ad, imagine the hallway healthcare, people without doctors, housing problems and jobless numbers then.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada post puts call out for 'experienced skilled workers' to come to Canada
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Oct 15, 2026 • 4 minute read
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi. Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN /AFP
Reminiscent of former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s famous social media invitation a decade ago, Canada’s “come on in” welcome sign has again been placed in the country’s front window to entice foreign workers.
As funding for private college students’ loans in Ontario are on hold amid a financial audit and some high-profile industries lay off staff, the federal government is recruiting international labour to move to Canada.
“Are you an experienced skilled worker interested in immigrating to Canada and strengthening key sectors of our economy?” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada posted on X.
This came at a time when Canada had a 6.5% national unemployment rate and more companies were moving to the United States or saying they have to close as a result of the tariff war.
The narrative is a few weeks removed from Prime Minister Mark Carney meeting with the European Union on Canada potentially becoming an “associate member.”
Will Canadians get to vote on immigration increases?
Canadians, meanwhile, have not voted on more immigration or becoming quasi-European. The IRCC post reminds us of Trudeau’s “to those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you” post in 2017.
Many came to Canada, but not all legally.
And now with a Canadian delegation led by Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, who met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of a confirmed visit to Canada on Dec. 11 and 12, and International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu in India talking about new partnerships and investments pops up a drive to seduce more immigrants to Canada.
“We’re looking to address labour shortages and support communities through the following categories: Medical doctors, researchers and senior managers with Canadian work experience, health-care and social services professionals, tradespersons, educators, professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupations, professionals in transport occupations, workers with French-language proficiency,” said a federal government notice.
We don’t have anyone who can do those jobs here? Of course we do. What happened to all of those Canadian university and college graduates or the millions of new Canadians who have already been brought in? None of them are qualified? Of course, they are.
Growing Canada to 100 million residents?
After signalling Canada is reducing immigration numbers from the Trudeau era, the Carney government may also be signalling that bigger immigration goals are on the horizon.
Canada has had massive immigration numbers over the last decade and the Indian high commissioner told the CBC this week that the country needs even more immigrants over the next decade.
“You are the second largest country in the world with a 40-million population,” High Commissioner Dinesh K. Patnaik told the CBC in February. “You need at least over 100 million population. You need people to man many of your resources. We have the capacity, we have the intellect, we have the talent, we have the resources.”
‘Things will happen fast’
While many people feel he should mind his own business, he reiterated those thoughts this week on CPAC, saying “this is a new Canada and we are anticipating that things will happen fast. And Prime Minister Carney, given his background as the governor of two banks … as well as Brookfield, his experience with investment with the economy, there is a lot of trust that he will be able to deliver on a lot of the things.”
According to the Financial Post, Sidhu said Modi and Carney have also “set an ambitious target to go from $30 billion to $70 billion” in trade by 2030.
Indian High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh Patnaik
Indian High Commissioner to Canada Dinesh Patnaik speaks at the Energy Security Summit at the Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa March 10, 2026. BLAIR GABLE/POSTMEDIA NEWS
Meanwhile, the 100-million population narrative came weeks after Carney met with the European Union about Canada potentially becoming an associate EU member.
Perhaps offering insight into what the future could hold, Patnaik added that “Canada is a country of 42 million people (and) your workforce is reducing every year … Prime Minister Carney is looking at an investment of $1 trillion into the economy over the next 10 years or so,” he said, adding that means “you need to create 15 million jobs in this country in the next 10 years” to supplement a “21-million workforce that is reducing every year by 186,000 (people).”
As the Toronto Sun‘s Brian Lilley wrote this week, “in 2015, the last year of the (Stephen) Harper Conservative government, Canada brought in 271,000 new permanent residents,” which he said added up to 755,000 new arrivals with the “219,166 foreign students, 249,000 people granted temporary work permits and 16,040 asylum seekers.
By 2023 during Trudeau’s reign, Lilley reported Canada “had 471,000 permanent residents, 682,889 foreign students, 949,270 people given work permits and 144,000 asylum seekers,” which added up to 2,247,159 people coming into Canada. In 2024, it dipped to two million, while in 2025 it was 1.1 million.
Now Carney has hinted that it’s time to ramp things back up.
“There were years where the expectation would have been, for example, 700,000 and it ended up two million … These are big, big overshoots,” he told the New York Times. “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.”
Canada having a population of 100 million people by 2036 will not be easy to control. No matter how many answer this new IRCC ad, imagine the hallway healthcare, people without doctors, housing problems and jobless numbers then.
WARMINGTON: Federal government advertising that door is wide open to foreign workers
Federal government is on a recruiting push amid speculation by Indian ambassador that Canada needs a population of 100 million people. More.
Toronto 18 jihadi terror boss granted full parole
The Parole Board of Canada says the would-be terrorist who planned to bomb CSIS no longer shows signs of extremism
Author of the article:Brian Towie
Published Oct 16, 2026 • Last updated 14 hours ago • 1 minute read
Zakaria Amara getting arrested in 2006.
Zakaria Amara getting arrested in 2006. Photo by Screengrab
A ringleader of the failed Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole after the Parole Board of Canada concluded he no longer shows “any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.”
Zakaria Amara helped recruit members of a group that planned to storm Parliament Hill and bomb several places across Toronto. He’s been on day parole with multiple conditions for the past four years, and the board moved his release forward after they reviewed his case last week.
The two-member panel says Amara, 41, demonstrated “positive change, both in attitude and behaviour” after taking a deradicalization process while he was in jail. The panel’s decision, which included redactions, says Amara wants to live in his own home, work a full-time job, attend a mosque, see family and participate in “appropriate leisure activities.”
Amara can’t communicate with anyone involved in crime, including others arrested in the anti-terrorism raids of June 2006. He can’t come into contact with extremists, except in his work as a consultant with a specialized program.
He also has to continue to attend counselling, undergo financial monitoring and have restrictions on his phone and Internet.
Terror plot
Amara and an accomplice recruited people with jihadist ideologies to carry out terror attacks to prompt the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan. Amara specifically masterminded a plot focused on building truck bombs targeting the headquarters of the Canadian Security Intelligence Services, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and a military base.
Amara pleaded guilty in October 2009 to participating in a terror group with the intention of causing explosions that were likely to cause serious bodily harm or death.
He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years. Amara challenged the sentence but it was upheld.
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torontosun.com
The Parole Board of Canada says the would-be terrorist who planned to bomb CSIS no longer shows signs of extremism
Author of the article:Brian Towie
Published Oct 16, 2026 • Last updated 14 hours ago • 1 minute read
Zakaria Amara getting arrested in 2006.
Zakaria Amara getting arrested in 2006. Photo by Screengrab
A ringleader of the failed Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole after the Parole Board of Canada concluded he no longer shows “any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.”
Zakaria Amara helped recruit members of a group that planned to storm Parliament Hill and bomb several places across Toronto. He’s been on day parole with multiple conditions for the past four years, and the board moved his release forward after they reviewed his case last week.
The two-member panel says Amara, 41, demonstrated “positive change, both in attitude and behaviour” after taking a deradicalization process while he was in jail. The panel’s decision, which included redactions, says Amara wants to live in his own home, work a full-time job, attend a mosque, see family and participate in “appropriate leisure activities.”
Amara can’t communicate with anyone involved in crime, including others arrested in the anti-terrorism raids of June 2006. He can’t come into contact with extremists, except in his work as a consultant with a specialized program.
He also has to continue to attend counselling, undergo financial monitoring and have restrictions on his phone and Internet.
Terror plot
Amara and an accomplice recruited people with jihadist ideologies to carry out terror attacks to prompt the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan. Amara specifically masterminded a plot focused on building truck bombs targeting the headquarters of the Canadian Security Intelligence Services, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and a military base.
Amara pleaded guilty in October 2009 to participating in a terror group with the intention of causing explosions that were likely to cause serious bodily harm or death.
He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years. Amara challenged the sentence but it was upheld.
Toronto 18 Ringleader Paroled: What It Means for Ontario
Zakaria Amara, involved in the Toronto 18 terror plot, has been granted full parole after showing significant rehabilitation.
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Toronto 18 jihadi terror boss granted full parole
A ringleader of the failed Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole by the Parole Board of Canada. Read more.