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FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking

Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

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FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking Back to video

For the third consecutive quarter, the population of Canada has shrunk, capping off an unprecedented nine-month period that has seen the Canadian population go down by a combined 180,000 people.

But the phenomenon is due almost entirely to Ottawa reining in the meteoric surge of temporary migration experienced by Canada between 2022 and 2024. On multiple other immigration streams intake continues to remain at generational if not all-time highs.

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