A labour shortage? What does that mean in Canada?
Apparently, it means that Prime Minister Mark Carney will muse about hiking our immigration intake to 500,000 people per year. 500,000 permanent residents a year is a historically unprecedented target, and Canada already came remarkably close to it in 2024.
In Canada, it is the federal government that decides who is legally permitted to come and work here from abroad.
Earlier this year, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government announced — or rather boasted — that they had brought immigration under control after the open-floodgate Trudeau years. In 2025 the national population, they claimed, shrank by 102,000 people, the first decline since Confederation.
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently told the New York Times that Canada’s immigration system is finally “under control.” He feels it’s time for Ottawa to resume a “controlled increase” in the population. “That will happen,” he said. “It’s the nature of Canada.”
The pause is over because Carney needs mass immigration to juice the economy’s numbers.
Preliminary numbers released by Ottawa earlier this year showed that Canada’s population was dropping for the first time since Confederation – but there was a small problem. The numbers weren’t accurate. When Statistics Canada released revised numbers last week, it showed that Canada’s population had actually increased in early 2026.
The shifting population numbers aren’t just a rounding error of interest to economists – they have big implications for assessing economic growth and immigration policy. The recent revision shows that Ottawa still doesn’t have a good handle on who is in the country. While the revisions are welcome, more needs to be done so the federal government can provide timely and accurate population information.
Carney and company regard truth as detrimental to their profits.
Wage suppression is a good thing in their circles. They will continue to lie.
Based on their record, Canadians should get very nervous whenever the federal Liberals start talking about increasing Canada’s immigration levels, again.
Particularly so when Prime Minister Mark Carney casually signals the Liberals are about to do it not in Parliament, but in an interview with the New York Times .
Back when he was running for Liberal leader, Carney said excessive immigration under his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, was one of the reasons the Canadian economy was in bad shape before U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
All Carney wants is to depress wages and falsify the GDP.
The great negotiator has served up a decrepit economy.
There was a time when I thought Canada’s immigration policies were superior to the United States’.
For decades, we have placed far too much weight on things like family reunification, and far too little on recruiting talent. For decades, Canada had more selective policies, and it benefited greatly.
TORONTO — Ontario government officials who inspected three career colleges found evidence suggesting third parties were completing the coursework — sometimes entire courses in one day — and a few students who couldn’t name their school or program, they alleged in reports filed in court.
Inspection reports for three Academy of Learning locations are among hundreds of pages of documents that make up the record in a court challenge as the schools seek to overturn a government decision that cut off their ability to offer financial aid.
I can smell the 3rd World through my computer.
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA — Time to re-open the gates.
That’s what Prime Minister Mark Carney implied during a recent interview with the New York Times, suggesting that Canada’s immigration system is ready to start ramping up intake.
“We’ve taken measures to get that under control and we have it under control,” Carney said during his sit-down last week with 10 New York Times reporters.
Carney is damn liar.
Tories vow to ‘vigorously oppose’ higher immigration levels, critic says
A claim for refugee protection in Canada by a family of three has been rejected because their appeal was apparently generated by artificial intelligence tools and riddled with fake cases and false legal arguments.
The Federal Court issued a sharp rebuke of a court filing that challenges an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) decision that refused asylum to the trio, with Justice Roger Lafrenière saying the appeal is riddled with nonsense and calling it “an abusive document.”
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney says with Canada’s immigration system back under control, the question now is when to begin a “controlled increase” of the country’s population.
Carney made the remark in a recent interview with the New York Times, just over a month before the government is required by law to release its immigration levels plan for the next three years.
“Now the question starts to become, when do we resume some controlled increase in the population, which is the nature of Canada?” Carney told the New York Times.
Under control? The liars have been juicing immigration numbers to bolster their make believe economic stats.
Canada’s Huge Population Revisions Reveal A Much Worse Economy
MONTREAL — A “radicalized” subculture formed among the ranks of officers at a Montreal police station in a multicultural neighbourhood before it was rocked by allegations of racism and criminal misconduct, newly released internal briefing notes say.
The documents, obtained by The Canadian Press through access to information legislation, are part of a package prepared for the appearance of Fady Dagher, Montreal’s police chief, before a municipal public safety committee in August.
No description of the subculture is provided but the ususal “experts” suggest it was white supremacist in nature.
“White supremacist” is the new one size fits all slur for Canadians’ trying to protect their culture and values from the government’s assault by mass immigration from incompatible cultures, ruinous aboriginal policy and the ongoing erasure of our heritage.
Hateful propaganda such as this article will serve to spur many more to stand up for their rights against the racist proponents of mass immigration.
I was 18 when I moved to Canada as a Nepalese international student, carrying two suitcases and a simple dream: to study, build a career and eventually call this country home. However, I didn’t fully understand when I first arrived how uncertain and emotionally exhausting the journey to permanent residency could be.
While I studied psychology and international relations at the University of British Columbia, I interned at the Canadian Cancer Society and worked as a research assistant in a lab. I said yes to opportunities, built connections and slowly started to feel like I belonged here.
I didn’t know Canada had a crisis level shortage of psychology and international relations majors.
More than 1,000 people stood outside for hours waiting for job interviews for the new east Windsor Costco on Wednesday.
The lengthy and ever-growing line began at the front door of the Serbian Centre, where the job fair was held, and snaked along two sides of the venue’s large parking lot and up hundreds of metres of sidewalk on Catherine Street.
And just like that, Canada’s shrinking population went the way of its technical recession—revised away. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows that the country’s population grew in Q3 2026. More importantly, the data includes the upward revisions we’ve been discussing for months. It turns out that the much-discussed population contraction plaguing the country didn’t exist. The revisions reveal a bigger population, but more importantly, a much worse economy.
After several years of spectacular population growth in Canada, the story of 2026 has been the country experiencing the first outright population decline since Confederation.
While Canada showed a small quarter-over-quarter population decline during the fall months of 2025, revised numbers now show the population has generally been growing – contrary to previous counts that pointed to consistent and sizeable decreases.
