Federal government plans to scale back immigration targets it published last year, and set a new level for 2027 that is lower than a target set last year for 2026
Ottawa is poised Thursday to announce a major reduction in the number of permanent residents it plans to allow to settle in Canada in a sharp change of course as public support for immigration continues to wane.
For the first time the government will also set targets for the number of temporary residents, who include international students and people here on work permits, as part of Ottawa’s annual immigration levels plan. Last year, the federal government stuck with its targets of 485,000 permanent residents for 2024, and 500,000 for 2025. In previous years, the Liberal government had increased its immigration targets.earlier this month showed 58 per cent of Canadians surveyed thought there was too much immigration into the country, a rise of 14 percentage points from similar research last year, according to Environics Institute research. That followed a 17-per-cent increase between 2022 and 2023.
Canada’s population, according to Statistics Canada’s real-time population clock, is now 41.7 million.
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