The Carney Government’s Immigration Plan Is Justin Trudeau’s With Cosmetic Change

The Carney Government’s Plan to “stabilize” immigration at 380,000 annually is a cosmetic change from the Trudeau years and does little to reduce the population pressure on Canadians.

“On November 4, 2025, the Government of Canada released its 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan (ILP) as part of Budget 2025, with additional details provided in the 2025 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration.

The ILP projects that permanent resident (PR) admissions will stabilize at 380,000 per year from 2026 through 2028. It also introduces two one‑time initiatives that would accelerate the transition of 148,000 current non-permanent residents (NPRs) to PR status over 2026 and 2027. Supplementary information indicates these admissions would be incremental to the stated PR admission targets.

The ILP reiterates the Government’s commitment to reduce the NPR¹ population to less than 5 per cent of Canada’s total population by the end of 2027, one year later than originally planned. It lowers arrival targets significantly, particularly for international students. At the same time, the Government anticipates high volumes of permit extensions for individuals already in Canada, which are not counted toward the ILP’s arrival targets….

However, it is important to note that a significant proportion of PR admissions represent the individuals already in Canada as NPRs being granted permanent resident status. According to IRCC data, nearly half (48 per cent) of new permanent residents admitted in 2025 were previously international students or temporary workers.” (Source: Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer)

“The ILP 2026-2028 maintains annual PR admissions at 380,000 per year, a modest increase from the previous plan.⁶ This level would represent a roughly 20 per cent reduction relative to the record-high 484,000 admissions in 2024.

The plan also introduces two one‑time initiatives in 2026 and 2027 that would transition an additional 148,000 people already in Canada—protected persons, their dependents, and certain temporary workers—to permanent status:

• 115,000 persons with recognized protected person status and their in-Canada dependents;⁷
• 33,000 temporary workers ‘who have established strong roots in their communities’.

While these transitions temporarily raise total PR admissions above the stated annual targets, they reflect changes of residency status rather than new inflows and thus would have no direct impact on overall population growth.” (Source: Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer)

The only immigration policy that may partially remedy the immense damage done to Canadian society through Justin Trudeau’s narcissism which manifested itself in effectively removing Canada’s borders to welcome the surplus population of the world, is to limit immigration intake to no more than 120,000 per year, and this limit should include the transitioning to permanent residency of those who already reside in Canada illegally or on a temporary basis, if they qualify on the basis of the criteria in effect at the time.

[“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tweet on Jan. 28, 2017 ]

All immigration applicants, including the non-permanent-residents, must be assessed based on the criteria in effect in law for successful integration into the Canadian society and their potential to contribute to Canadian society socially, culturally, and economically.

All refugee claimants, family unification, and assisted and sponsored immigration applicants must similarly qualify based on the same criteria in effect in law.

The purported aim of immigration is to compensate for “the aging” Canadian population, yet in a perverse way the government of Canada has the destructive policy of allowing immigrants to bring their elderly parents and grandparents to Canada.

“In 2006, the C.D. Howe Institute published a study called ‘No elixir of youth: immigration cannot keep Canada young.’ It concluded that immigration could do little to alleviate the likely consequences of aging on Canada’s age structure and government finances.” (Source: Population Institute Canada)

Since the federal government’s plan is to transition to permanent residency the 148,000 non-permanent residents above and beyond the 380,000 annual new permanent residents in the Immigration Level Plans in 2026 and 2027, this would raise the total permanent residency intake to 454,000 in each of these years, thus paralleling or exceeding Justin Trudeau’s average immigration intake during the “open border” years! So the betrayal of Canada will continue as in the past.

All such mass immigration policies are implemented in the context of the lie that there are not sufficient births in Canada to compensate for deaths. Yet Statistics Canada clearly documents significantly higher birth rates than deaths in the years 2020 to 2025. For example in 2024/2025 there were 368,928 births vs. 334,699 deaths, where births exceeded deaths by 34,229.  And in total from 2020 to 2025 births exceeded deaths by 180,566.

A similar pattern exists for previous years. According to the 2012 publication by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) called Findings on Consultations (Page 49), in 2009-2010 the number of births exceeded the number of deaths by 134,000.

And to end “open borders” for birth tourism, which is a regular occurrence in Canada, Canada’s Citizenship Act needs to be revised. Clause 3 (1) of the Citizenship Act should be revised as follows: “Subject to this Act, a person is a citizen if (a) the person was born in Canada after February 14, 1977, and at the time of his birth his birth mother was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.”

The Canadian government must learn from the tragedy of Europe and especially Britain where mass immigration has practically led to the replacement of the native population who can no longer call their country home. The destructive effects of mass immigration on European countries are a matter of public knowledge. So we are compelled to ask why successive governments of Canada, Liberal and Conservative, continue the suicidal policy of mass immigration? Who are the powers that compel Canadian leaders to open the borders to the masses of the world?

Clearly these are the corporate powers that benefit from the ever-increasing supply of low-wage labour and ever-expansion of consumers of their products leading to ever-higher profits at the cost of the destruction of Canada’s environment – farmlands, orchards, and other natural resources on which the people of Canada depend for their survival.

The Canadian patriot Charles M. Campbell called the Canadian government’s immigration policy “betrayal and deceit” in his book of the same name.

“Campbell’s first chapter, ‘Immigration Debate – The Impossible Dream?’ points out that immigration policy is virtually never debated in Canada. For example, at the 1991 federal Progressive Conservative party convention, there were at least seven immigration- and multiculturalism-restricting resolutions – e.g., one ‘demanding revisions of multicultural policy to foster ‘a common national identity for one people living together in harmony as equal citizens loyal to the Canadian ideal’ [which] passed at 89 per cent…’…All these were utterly ignored by the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney…” (Source: Review of Betrayal and Deceit by Mark Wegierski)

So the cosmetic changes to immigration policy made by the Carney government continue the same policy of betrayal of Canada.