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Canada Immigration News: Trudeau Slashes Targets By 21%
Canada Immigration News reports Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the Canadian government will reduce the number of new permanent residents by 21% by next year.
This is one of several significant modifications to immigration targets that Trudeau has announced to halt the country’s population increase.
During his press conference on Thursday, Trudeau announced to reporters that Canada will be reducing its immigration intake over the next three years. As a result, the country’s population will not increase for the following two years.
The United States government is changing its mind about its original goal of maintaining unchanged immigration targets for 2026. The Immigration Levels Plan for the Years 2025–2027 states that in 2025, Canada would cut the quota for new permanent immigrants from 500,000 to 395,000.
During the event, Miller stated that the current temporary residents will account for 40% of all new permanent residents next year.
The federal government has projected that this figure will drop even more, reaching 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027. Although the epidemic necessitated additional workers for Canada, Trudeau acknowledged that the labor market had transformed.
The federal government has stated that it will still aim to welcome 485,000 new permanent residents in 2024 and 500,000 new residents in 2025, as stated in last year’s plans. Last year’s projections indicated that by 2026, the figure would have “stabilized” at 500,000.
Also outlined in Thursday’s plan are the levels of temporary residents; the goal is to keep the number of these people to fewer than 5% of the overall population. According to Canada’s objectives, there will be a decrease from 445,901 temporary residents in 2025 to 445,662 in 2026.
Contrarily, there will be a “modest increase” of 17,439 to 463,101 temporary residents in 2026.
Miller elaborated that the issuance of study permits in Canada decreased by 43% this year. He predicted that, due to reduced immigration, Canada’s housing demand might have dropped by 670,000 units by the end of 2027.
“So, by that time, we won’t need to construct an extra 670,000 housing units,” he stated.
According to Miller, the primary target of the permanent residency program will be “those who are already here.”
“We welcome many, but not all can come here,” he stated.
Miller stated that the need for newcomers to our economy is obvious, but we are also aware of the challenges our nation is facing and need to adjust our policies appropriately.
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His goal is that everyone can access good jobs, housing, and support systems, and he promised that these reforms would make immigration work for the nation. We will keep safeguarding our system and appropriately increasing our population; we have heard the Canadian people.
Reducing immigration levels has been an ongoing trend, and this is the most recent example. The federal government initially established goals for temporary residents in March.
Miller had previously stated that the goal is to guarantee a “sustainable” increase in the influx of temporary immigrants into Canada.
According to Miller, 2.5 million people were temporarily living in Canada in 2023, making up about 6.2% of the total population. The government aims to reduce that to 5% during the next three years.
Reducing the number of permanent residents will make it harder for the most vulnerable migrant workers to gain residency, according to migrant rights groups.
According to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, the Liberal government’s “flip-flop” showed a “massive admission of failure” regarding immigration policy.
According to Poilievre, it is unrealistic to expect Justin Trudeau to fulfill his hasty, irrational, and impulsive pledges to undo his previous actions. “He dismantled the world’s finest immigration system, one that enjoyed the support of both liberals and conservatives for half a century.”
