Perhaps the most intractable policy disaster handed to Prime Minister Carney by the Trudeau government is the immigration file. The ugliest detail in that file is undoubtedly the astronomic increase in temporary residents (largely foreign workers, international students, and asylum seekers) – a population that expanded from 3.3% in 2018 to 7.5% in 2024. The […]
This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on October 30th, 2025. It is republished here with permission of the author. When I look at the accelerating mess that is Canada, I am reminded of the answer by a character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, who was asked how
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After nearly a decade of continually increasing immigration levels, including two consecutive years of allowing them to reach stratospheric heights (annual population growth topped one million in 2022, and almost hit 1.3 million in 2023) the Trudeau government finally caved to public opposition in October 2024 by reducing the 2025 permanent resident target from 500,000
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On July 18th, the National Post published an uncritical review of a book titled Toward Prosperity: The Transformation of Atlantic Canada’s Economy in which former pollster Don Mills and economist David Campbell “detail the dramatic improvements newcomers are bringing to the East Coast” and claim that Atlantic Canada is “in the early stage of an
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In January, I was interviewed by independent filmmaker Sangita Iyer of Mettle Films for a two-part documentary on mass immigration. Part One has now been released. Some of my thoughts were included – along with those of other commentators you may know such as Kirk Lubimov, Darshan Maharaja, Tasha Kheirridin, Natasha Graham, Simon Nantais, and
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A recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute reveals that, despite the Trudeau government’s immigration cut, 62% of Canadians still think immigration levels are too high. This majority includes 60% of native-born Canadians and 57% of foreign-born Canadians, indicating broad support for immigration restriction across different backgrounds. While
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Canada has slashed permanent resident admissions by 21%, slammed down caps on the international student and foreign worker streams, and bolstered various restrictions across the board. While our immigration rate is still disproportionately high compared to other developed countries, and severely out of sync with our own historic rate, these cuts are having an effect
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In October, the Trudeau government buckled to rising anger over skyrocketing immigration levels and slashed permanent resident admissions while keeping in place previous restrictions on foreign worker and international student numbers. The federal government promised these measures would “pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed, sustainable growth in the long term”. Specifically,
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Population Institute Canada’s website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on May 24th, 2025. It is republished on Dominion Review with permission of the author. The Government of Canada’s strategic foresight organization, Policy Horizons Canada, recently issued a report that anticipates a Canada in dire straits in 15 years. The report, with the title
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Chris George’s Substack – the By George Journal. It is republished here, in slightly abridged form, with permission of the author. The country’s immigration trends have been a growing concern for Canadians, yet during this federal election campaign immigration policy has been fully eclipsed by anxieties relating
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