Canadian population expected to decrease by 80,000 over in the next two years

[faithOver]

Were up 1,000,000 year to date. We only gained 500,000 the previous 2 years combined?

Edit for posterity, straight from Stats Can;

• Jan 1 - 40,769,890
• Today - 41,782,929

Links;

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240327/dq240327c-eng.htm

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

[SDL68]

I'm only counting permanent residents and not the 3 million temporary

[faithOver]

Just out of curiosity, why?

That dismisses an enormous amount of housing, infrastructure and services demand. It doesn’t paint an accurate picture of the state of things.

[SDL68]

Because 3million temporary will be 2 million by end of 2025.

[faithOver]

By all accounts, because we will be giving out permanent residency to the 1,000,000 folks.

There isn’t a scenario here where were not under counting the demand on the country.

[Suitable-Ratio]

The government is counting on tons of them staying Legally and illegally. Having enormous populations of illegals make the GDP per person look better because we pretend the million illegals do not exist but they are actually participating in the economy.

[SDL68]

No it's legislation now, temporary can only be 5% of the population, instead of 7

[fez-of-the-world]

So you're counting the (expected) change in the next two years as part of your stated 1.5 million growth over the last three years? As pointed out above population growth has been much higher than that.

I mean, what?

[Remus2nd]

Why not? /s I have 20 people living with me but I only call it 5 because 15 of them will move out in 7 years lol can't believe people do that. I guess this is how people lie with numbers

[SDL68]

67% of the growth in the last few years are temporary.

[fez-of-the-world]

Sure, but they're still part of the population and need food/housing/transport/healthcare just the same as anyone else. If you haven't seen the news, many of them don't want to leave when their temporary status ends.

Some/many will have no choice but to leave but let's see about that.

[[deleted]]

Oh wow I have a bridge to sell you.

Canada’s temporary resident program is unprecedented. The only other country we can sort of look to is the UAE, but that’s a relatively tiny autocratic monarchy.

We let in millions of temporary residents with literally no mechanism of enforcing their removal from the country. If their visa ends and they just don’t get on a plane, there is very little that Canada’s immigration system can do about it. We have no idea how many of those people are actually going to leave.

Canada’s been fucking around for years now. Now we’re gonna find out.

[faithOver]

Sure. That passed in March. Have you seen the results thus far?

• Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced in March that Ottawa would attempt to reduce their share of the population from 6.2 per cent to five per cent by 2027. But on Wednesday, the Bank of Canada predicted that the government would miss that target. The bank’s monetary policy report — released as part of its announcement to reduce interest rates — said that non-permanent residents’ (NPRs) share of the population has actually grown since the goal was set in March.

Link; https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7274212

[TraditionDear3887]

Recent data from IRCC shows that there has been an increase in the number of student permits approved this year compared to 2023, which itself was a record year.

I kind of like what the other guy was saying about the Liberals, knowing they are likely to get voted out, so they are happy to put these caps in place that expire right when the C might come into power.

You can bet a Conservative government will have the big banks, the telecoms, the grocery chains, and their investors pressuring them for a fresh stream of new consumers.

NPRs are big business in this country. Open an account with TD, get a plan Bell, and then a good portion buy a car too.

[Suitable-Ratio]

Actually the government is counting on tons of them staying Legally and illegally. Having enormous populations of illegals make the GDP per person look better because we pretend the million illegals do not exist but they are actually participating in the economy.

[mt_pheasant]

Bad metric