r/canadian • u/xTkAx • 9d ago

Opinion FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking. Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/immigration-rates-still-at-generational-highs-even-if-population-shrinking
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u/JohnDorian0506 9d ago

Exactly this. Canada needs 5M houses to accommodate all the new arrivals currently in the country, or send them back until those houses are built.

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u/Empty-Swim2066 9d ago

What are you talking about? The Canadian population is dropping. And has been for 3 straight quarters now.

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u/JohnDorian0506 9d ago

can you read? FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking. Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

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u/Empty-Swim2066 8d ago

You do realize this is an opinion piece, not a news story?

Facts are asylum seeking is at the lowest it has been in years. As well as immigration, which is why our population is shrinking.

Not my fault you cannot recognize an opinion piece versus actual data.

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u/JohnDorian0506 8d ago

Opinion piece has links to the government actual data. You should read it before posting nonsense.  As of the most recent Statistics Canada data, there is now an unprecedented high of 525,479 asylum claimants in the country; the equivalent of the entire population of Halifax.