Outflow of temporary residents drives drop in Canada’s population for third consecutive quarter

[BeaverFever]

Just sharing to dispell the myths that nothing has changed on the immigration file:
 

Outflow of temporary residents drives drop in Canada’s population for third consecutive quarter
 

Canada’s population fell by about 55,000 people in the first quarter of 2026, a third consecutive quarterly decline that is being driven by the federal government’s efforts to reduce the number of temporary residents in the country. As of April 1, 2026, the country’s population stood at 41.4 million people, including citizens, permanent and temporary residents, according to new estimates from Statistics Canada. By contrast, a year ago, Canada’s population was approximately 0.5 per cent higher, at 41.6 million people.

 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-population-decline-temporary-residents-third-consecutive/

[Barquentine]

A mere 40 million, less than the population of:

Jakarta, Indonesia, with an estimated metropolitan area population of approximately 42.4 million people.

 

Canada should have a pop. of 100 million.

 

[SpankyMcFarland]

This outflow must affect economic growth? I’m not saying that’s a bad thing but I don’t hear much acknowledgement of such an effect from the Tories. 

[Legato]

1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

A mere 40 million, less than the population of:

Jakarta, Indonesia, with an estimated metropolitan area population of approximately 42.4 million people.

 

Canada should have a pop. of 100 million.

 

With the current housing and health care problems more like 30 million.

[Army Guy]

1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

A mere 40 million, less than the population of:

Jakarta, Indonesia, with an estimated metropolitan area population of approximately 42.4 million people.

 

Canada should have a pop. of 100 million.

 

Yes it should, as soon as we have everything in place to support that population....but the liberals did nothing to take into account things like infra structure, lack of homes, labor forces,....

[eyeball]

7 hours ago, Army Guy said:

Yes it should, as soon as we have everything in place to support that population....but the liberals did nothing to take into account things like infra structure, lack of homes, labor forces,....

Lest we forget...

The specific policy shift in the late 1980s to decouple immigration targets from the economic cycle—raising numbers to sustain Canada's aging workforce and social safety net was initiated by Progressive Conservative, Minister of Employment and Immigration, Barbara McDougall.

Meanwhile her boss Brian Mulroney was off engineering global free trade and making other countries safe for our manufacturers to migrate to.

What did they think would happen?

[CdnFox]

10 hours ago, Barquentine said:

A mere 40 million, less than the population of:

Jakarta, Indonesia, with an estimated metropolitan area population of approximately 42.4 million people.

 

Canada should have a pop. of 100 million.

 

No it shouldn't. It will eventually grow to that of course but given its age settlement in history and give him the  strong policies in the first portion of its existence to prevent the expansion of the west we have about as many residences as it's humanly possible to have without completely destroying the country

[CdnFox]

11 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

Just sharing to dispell the myths that nothing has changed on the immigration file:
 

Outflow of temporary residents drives drop in Canada’s population for third consecutive quarter
 

Canada’s population fell by about 55,000 people in the first quarter of 2026, a third consecutive quarterly decline that is being driven by the federal government’s efforts to reduce the number of temporary residents in the country. As of April 1, 2026, the country’s population stood at 41.4 million people, including citizens, permanent and temporary residents, according to new estimates from Statistics Canada. By contrast, a year ago, Canada’s population was approximately 0.5 per cent higher, at 41.6 million people.

 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-population-decline-temporary-residents-third-consecutive/

The challenges are not tracking who is leaving or not. They're making those assumptions based on the idea that everyone that should leave is leaving as scheduled. 

Still, it's positive and seems we're moving in the right direction.

Howeer the fact is the 'reduction' is only due to the fact that we're removing some of the insane excess justin let in during his last days.  We're still letting in excessive numbers of people, we're just not allowing people to stay if their visa's expire

Canada significantly reduced its immigration targets to "cool off" rapid population growth, lowering permanent resident admissions to 395,000 in 2025. For temporary residents, the cap was set at 673,650 new arrivals as the government actively works to reduce the proportion of non-permanent residents to 5% of the total

That's still a million people a year. Which is probably Considerably more than we can take right at the moment even allowing for our death rates

[SpankyMcFarland]

On 6/18/2026 at 9:54 AM, Barquentine said:

A mere 40 million, less than the population of:

Jakarta, Indonesia, with an estimated metropolitan area population of approximately 42.4 million people.

 

Canada should have a pop. of 100 million.

 

I’m not sure we want Java’s problems. When the government wants to leave your big city and start again somewhere else you know you’re in trouble. 

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075720551/jakarta-indonesia-sinking-into-java-sea-new-capital

 

[eyeball]

15 hours ago, CdnFox said:

It will eventually grow to that of course

How?

[CdnFox]

40 minutes ago, eyeball said:

How?

Through a process known as 'addition'.  It's a math concept, so you won't be familiar as a liberal. This link may help

Math Talk with Infants and Toddlers | NAEYC

[eyeball]

1 hour ago, CdnFox said:

Through a process known as 'addition'

We'll, right now we're subtracting so...you must be applying a forwards backward approach to 100 million.

Good luck.

[CdnFox]

5 hours ago, eyeball said:

We'll, right now we're subtracting so...

How can you tell? You didn't know the difference between adding and subtracting and still can't tell the difference between men and women  

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.you must be applying a forwards backward approach to 100 million.

Wow  This is why we won't let you drive  a standard. 

[I am Groot]

On 6/18/2026 at 8:24 AM, Barquentine said:

A mere 40 million, less than the population of:

Jakarta, Indonesia, with an estimated metropolitan area population of approximately 42.4 million people.

 

Canada should have a pop. of 100 million.

 

I was around when the population was 20 million. And no one has been able to show how doubling our population has made Canada any better than it was. There are, however, lots of examples of how it has gotten worse.

Nobody wants to live in a crowded, third world shithole.

On 6/18/2026 at 7:38 AM, BeaverFever said:

Just sharing to dispell the myths that nothing has changed on the immigration file:
 

Outflow of temporary residents drives drop in Canada’s population for third consecutive quarter

The minister of immigration told us just last month that they don't know who has and hasn't left because they're not recording the information. 

[I am Groot]

On 6/18/2026 at 5:53 PM, eyeball said:

Lest we forget...

The specific policy shift in the late 1980s to decouple immigration targets from the economic cycle—raising numbers to sustain Canada's aging workforce and social safety net was initiated by Progressive Conservative, Minister of Employment and Immigration, Barbara McDougall.

And it wasn't done to help Canada. They asked the Economic Council of Canada, which was then a government think tank, if a big rise in immigration would help the economy. They were told no. They did it, according to a G&M report of the time, because they felt this would help the PCs make inroads into ethnic communities and get more votes. It was not done to help Canada in any way.

[eyeball]

1 hour ago, I am Groot said:

It was not done to help Canada in any way.

Whale oil beef hooked. It's always something isn't it?

Maybe one day we'll figure out how to get control over our governments but probably not in our lifetime.

[Barquentine]

12 hours ago, I am Groot said:

I was around when the population was 20 million. And no one has been able to show how doubling our population has made Canada any better than it was. There are, however, lots of examples of how it has gotten worse.

So was I, but I don't live in a fantasy world of nostalgia, or just look for problems, or blame my bad feelings on other people just because they don't look like me.

[John Johnston]

4 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

So was I, but I don't live in a fantasy world of nostalgia, or just look for problems, or blame my bad feelings on other people just because they don't look like me.

Yep. Grievance, Entitlement and Victimhood. Lot of that going around these days. 

[CdnFox]

[WestCanMan]

On 6/18/2026 at 5:24 AM, Barquentine said:

A mere 40 million, less than the population of:

Jakarta, Indonesia, with an estimated metropolitan area population of approximately 42.4 million people.

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Canada should have a pop. of 100 million.

Bringing people in who detest our way of life should never have been an option. 

[WestCanMan]

You know it's bad when people are leaving Canada to go back to China.

• AI: "The trend of Chinese individuals and families leaving Canada to return to China is driven by a combination of high living costs, housing unaffordability, limited career progression, and a desire to be closer to aging family members"

Emigration in general:

• Overall Emigration: An unprecedented 120,640 Canadian citizens and permanent residents emigrated from Canada in 2025, leaving primarily for the United States, the UK, Australia, and various Asian countries. (In the official data tracked by Statistics Canada, the term "emigration" strictly excludes temporary residents whose visas expired. It refers almost entirely to people leaving on a voluntary basis.

 

Historically, Canada wasn't a place where more people wanted to leave than stay, but after 11 years of LPoC misrule, Canada is no longer a top destination for people looking for a new place to live. 

[I am Groot]

9 hours ago, Barquentine said:

So was I, but I don't live in a fantasy world of nostalgia, or just look for problems, or blame my bad feelings on other people just because they don't look like me.

Don't look like me. Don't talk like me. Don't act like me. Don't think like me. Don't pay taxes like me.

All of which is enough reason to not want millions of them coming here because, as I've pointed out, human beings, except lefty scum, generally prefer to live around those like themselves. This is a known sociological fact that exists throughout the world in all cultures, regardless of race. It's called homophily. Look it up.

Added to this, though, is that so many of them are violently anti-Western, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, misygenists, Islamists, and have no respect for our culture and traditions. And another very large percentage of them, which in a Venn diagram would largely intersect with the above, are poor, unskilled, mouthbreathing goat herders who can barely figure out how to use a toilet and who I will have to be paying for for their entire lives.

The reason you don't care about any of those is that they're brown and you're a racist who can't even imagine having the same standards for brown people as you do for white people.

And don't think I didn't notice you couldn't contradict me and show how importing these people has made Canada better.

 

9 hours ago, John Johnston said:

Yep. Grievance, Entitlement and Victimhood. Lot of that going around these days. 

Imagine us filthy right wingers who actually care about our country. You lefties know that the flag is only something to shit on and throw away.

4 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Yeah, but you see, the lefties love that. They're so wrapped in self-loathing and white liberal guilt that they can only assuage it by importing millions of brown people to show you unracist they are.

[Barquentine]

15 hours ago, I am Groot said:

Imagine us filthy right wingers who actually care about our country. You lefties know that the flag is only something to shit on and throw away.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...WAA, WAA WAA... Same old stupid sh!t . So pathetic!

[John Johnston]

12 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...WAA, WAA WAA... Same old stupid sh!t . So pathetic!

Indeed. 

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, Barquentine said:

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...WAA, WAA WAA... Same old stupid sh!t . So pathetic!

And still no logical or rational reply possible.  It always seems to hurt your feelings badly when you know that they're right and you can't refuse it. It seems to be a common problem on the left

1 hour ago, John Johnston said:

Indeed. 

And thanks for proving the point