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FIRST READING: Canada’s borders are wide open

Migration numbers might be slightly down, but immigration screening and border security remains in ruins

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Canada has just recorded something that it’s never seen before; a year in which the population went down. At the beginning of 2025, there were 41,574,081 people in the country. At the end, there were 41,472,081.

This was the direct result of the Liberal government actively dialling down a post-COVID migration surge unlike anything in Canada’s history. Starting in earnest in 2022, Canada brought in more than three million people in just three years, a voluntary immigration rate unmatched by any other country on earth at the time.

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Rents are now cooling due to the simple fact that Canada is no longer importing 2,800 people per day who need a place to live. But Canada is nowhere near out of the woods when it comes to immigration.

Below, a cursory summary of how the Canadian border remains wide open. In some areas, more open than it’s ever been before.

Immigration intake is still at all-time highs

In 2025, Canada admitted 393,500 permanent residents. This was down from the 483,640........

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