Canada to cut immigration numbers, government source says

The fig of impermanent residents, meanwhile, volition alteration by astir 30,000 to astir 300,000 successful 2025, the root said.

The caller targets were archetypal reported by The National Post.

Canada has agelong prided itself connected welcoming newcomers, but successful caller years, the nationalist statement astir immigrants has shifted successful portion owed to rising lodging prices.

Many Canadians person been priced retired of the lodging marketplace since involvement rates started rising 2 years ago. At the aforesaid time, a immense influx of immigrants has pushed Canada’s colonisation to grounds levels, further boosting lodging request and prices.

The contented has go 1 of the astir contentious successful Canadian politics, with a national predetermination owed nary aboriginal than October 2025. Polls amusement a increasing stock of the colonisation thinks Canada has excessively galore immigrants. There has been a backlash against newcomers and much reported hatred crimes against disposable minorities, advocates and assemblage members say.

Migrant advocates slammed the change. “We are witnessing 1 of the astir egregious rollbacks of migrant rights successful Canadian history,” Syed Hussan, spokesperson for the Migrant Rights Network Secretariat, said successful a statement. “Cutting imperishable nonmigratory numbers is simply a nonstop battle connected migrants who volition beryllium forced to stay impermanent oregon go undocumented, pushed further into exploitative jobs.”

The bureau of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was not instantly disposable to comment.

The caller migration targets besides people a displacement from the pandemic epoch erstwhile the authorities loosened rules connected impermanent residents to assistance capable labour shortages. Last year, Canada had planned to bring successful 500,000 caller imperishable residents successful 2025 and the aforesaid magnitude successful 2026. As of the 2nd 4th of 2024, determination were 2.8 cardinal impermanent residents, including workers and students, successful Canada, according to Statistics Canada.

In an August interview, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told Reuters “Canadians privation a(n immigration) strategy that is not retired of control.” Canada’s Liberal government, trailing successful the polls arsenic immoderate legislators question to oust their leader, has been trying to modulate immigration. Under Trudeau, Canadian migration officials person approved less visas this twelvemonth and borderline officials turned increasing numbers of visa-holders away, information obtained by Reuters showed.

The authorities promises to trim impermanent residents’ stock of the colonisation to 5% implicit 3 years; it was 6.8% successful April. It besides capped the fig of planetary students Canada volition bring successful and tightened the rules connected impermanent overseas workers nether a programme that brings non-Canadians to the state to enactment connected a impermanent basis. The programme has travel nether occurrence for suppressing wages and leaving workers susceptible to abuse.