Canadians’ immigration views are changing. How will that effect the economy?

If this past year’s generational shift in the popular Canadian attitude to immigration can be pinpointed in hindsight on the calendar, it was somewhere around the beginning of November, when Canada’s population peaked and began to decline.

To be sure, the big inflection points on immigration had already passed, including the massive spike in the pandemic, driven by a wild gamble to increase temporary residents to juice the economy, followed eventually by the realization that this was putting impossible strain on housing and services, leading to large cuts in 2024 in the dying days of the Justin Trudeau prime ministership.

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Canada has a demographics problem. Is immigration still the answer?

If this past year’s generational shift in the popular Canadian attitude to immigration can be pinpointed in hindsight on the calendar, it was somewhere around the beginning of November, when Canada’s population peaked and began to decline.

To be sure, the big inflection points on immigration had already passed, including the massive spike in the pandemic, driven by a wild gamble to increase temporary residents to juice the economy, followed eventually by the realization that this was putting impossible strain on housing and services, leading to large cuts in 2024 in the dying days of the Justin Trudeau prime ministership.

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Geoff Russ: Immigration made affordability worse. Liberals gaslighted us all

Did the Liberal government lie about the effects of mass immigration, or simply get it wrong? It is almost certainly a heady mix of both. Canadians were told not to notice what was happening right in front of them, and they have every reason to be angry about the impact it had on their lives, most notably on affordability or the sudden emergence of shady “career” colleges in strip malls.

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The UK’s Patience With Mass Migration Is Gone

Is it possible that British citizens — and any politician who isn’t a member of the Labour Party — are finally getting fed up with mass migration from the Third World?

They’d have every right to be. Mass migration has been an unmitigated disaster for the U.K. The nation now leads in reported rapes per capita, thanks to an influx of men from countries where women aren’t equal or free. That was the excuse a lawyer gave for his Afghan client who raped a 15-year-old girl, after all, saying his client wasn’t “used to a society where women are free and deemed equal to men.”

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Nearly five million visas were set to expire in 2025. Where are the visa holders now?

As 2025 began, federal records showed that there were 4.9 million visas set to expire in the coming 12 months, with Conservatives pressing the Liberal government on how it would deal with those who didn’t leave willingly.

“The vast majority leave voluntarily, and that’s what’s expected,” was the official committee testimony of then Immigration Minister Marc Miller.

Guess who’s serving you at Tim’s?

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Mass immigration is fuelling rise of UK ethnic nationalism

New research has found an increase in the number of Britons who believe that a person must be born in the country to be considered truly British, with a significant number tying national identity to race and ancestry. So, are we witnessing the rise of ethnic nationalism in modern Britain?

A YouGov poll carried out on behalf of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that 36% of the public thought a person had to be born in Britain to be truly British — almost double the 2023 figure of 19%. Ethnic and ancestral conceptions of nationhood are the norm among supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which continues to lead in the polls. While seven in 10 Reform supporters said that having British ancestry was a prerequisite for someone to be truly British, six in 10 believed the nation was an ethnic — not a civic — community. More than a third of Reform UK voters (37%) said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer ethnic-minority people in 10 years’ time, with one in 10 holding the view that it was important to be white to be considered a good British citizen.

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Canada was once their top choice. Now Indian students are walking away

On a warm afternoon in New Delhi, Suraj Upadhyay stood in the doorway of a classroom that once overflowed with young Indians preparing for Canada. For years, this room was a small assembly line for Canadian dreams: language prep, application coaching, visa support.

Now, the rows are nearly empty.

“Every month, we used to have almost 200 to 250 students in our classrooms,” he said. “It’s down to just five to 10 students now.”


Who knew Human Trafficking was a bad thing?

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Survey shows majority of Albertans support referendum on increasing control over immigration

Alberta Next survey respondents believe the number of temporary and permanent immigrants entering Canada needs to be significantly reduced, and that the province should take more control of immigration to Alberta.

“I would like to go back to a more normal level of immigration, which is about 1% or less of the total population,” Premier Danielle Smith told the Western Standard at the UCP AGM in November. “That’s what we had historically.”


Unfortunately for Ontario residents Doug Ford continues to advocate for the import of cheap foreign labour to help his buddies out.

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Is Canada’s population decline real, or a statistical mirage?

According to estimates released last week by Statistics Canada, the Carney government is making progress on one of its immigration goals – reversing the enormous run-up in the country’s temporary resident population.

However, though the government appears to be making headway in terms of lowering immigration numbers back to historical levels, it’s a very different story when it comes to raising quality.

Ottawa also needs to take steps to ensure that the population drop reported by Stastcan is real, and not a statistical mirage.

Yup it’s a mirage.

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Canada spent $78 million deporting 18,000 people in 2024 — the most since Stephen Harper … in a very loose sense

Canada has spent more than $78 million deporting over 18,000 people in the 2024-25 fiscal year, the most since the government of Stephen Harper, according to data obtained by the Star from the Canada Border Services Agency.

The vast majority of those deported have been asylum seekers whose refugee claims have been rejected, the data says.

The surge comes as the federal government tightens immigration targets and limits new international student permits, a shift that experts say is likely to fuel a rise in deportations as hundreds of thousands of temporary residents face shrinking pathways to permanent status and as a “regularization program” for undocumented migrants, initially promised by the Trudeau government, remains stalled.

… The deportation level in 2024 was the highest since 2012, when more than 19,000 people were removed under Harper’s Conservative government. Deportations include all removals enforced in a given fiscal year, including refugee claimants as well as those living, working or studying in Canada who have overstayed their legal status.


The Star wants you to believe Carney is deporting failed asylum seekers at the same rate as Harper!

But the Star commits a sin of omission failing to point out Harper outperformed Carney by a huge margin based on the total number of asylum seekers each administration has faced.

Google AI – How many asylum seekers did Canada receive in the year 2024 vs. 2012?

In 2024, Canada received approximately 190,000 new asylum claims, a significant increase compared to the 20,500 applications received in 2012.

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Waterloo region cites water capacity issues amid population boom, aging infrastructure

The Region of Waterloo has identified a water capacity issue affecting the Mannheim Service Area, which supplies Kitchener, Waterloo, parts of Cambridge, and surrounding townships.

Officials say there are no immediate impacts on residents, and water remains safe for now.

However, a third-party review of the system is now underway to determine the best course of action.

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Anti-immigrant sentiment rises with loss of consensus on immigration policy

OTTAWA — Canada’s long-held consensus on immigration — that it’s a net positive for the country — has been coming apart in recent years.

Roughly half of the population thinks too many immigrants have been coming to Canada, according to several private polling firms.

That parallels a government survey from November 2024, when 54 per cent of respondents to a phone survey conducted by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said “too many” immigrants were coming to Canada.


It’s not “anti-immigrant” to fight back when your country is being stolen from under your feet, when you can’t buy a home, afford rent or even find a job because the elites profit from the cheap foreign labour they import.

It’s called self-defense and it’s not racist.

The Liberals are cooking the books and actually staying on track to nearly meet Trudeaus nation killing goals.

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Liberals got a popularity bump by reducing immigration targets. But those numbers aren’t the full picture

Douglas Todd: Confidential government polling showed support for lower migration targets. But actual numbers are slippery for both permanent and temporary residents.

The federal Liberals have been getting some good news from public opinion polls by emphasizing, for the first time in five decades, cutting migration targets.

The government’s public relations effort was revealed in confidential emails obtained through a freedom of information request from Ottawa’s Privy Council Office, the powerful arm that advises the prime minister.

The emails state the findings of a series of telephone surveys conducted by the Privy Council Office late last year are “not publicly available — do not share outside government.”

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The fiscal case for mass migration is being demolished

Christmas without Muslim Bollards

Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention.

Many people can’t have read it, because it is full of incendiary details which demolish the case for mass migration.

The MAC is ‘an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office’. It is not a political body, and its board is comprised of sober, sensible academics, who have set out to model ‘net fiscal impact’ – the costs, or benefits to the taxpayer of different kinds of migration. It’s worth noting that they do not seek to model second- or third-order costs of migration, such as housing costs, crime or long-term suppression of wages and birth rates.

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Canada records first population drop since pandemic: StatCan

Canada’s population dropped by about 76,000 from July to October, according to federal estimates, in a decrease largely attributed to immigration policy.

Statistics Canada published its preliminary Q3 report Wednesday morning, which estimated Canada’s population to be 41,575,585 as of Oct. 1.

The main factor was a sharp reduction in non-permanent residents, whose numbers dropped by 176,479 – the largest drop since comparable records began, wrote the agency.


Cripes Liberal media is playing this up like the country will be empty next week.

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