{"id":16489,"date":"2025-02-13T20:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/canada-could-miss-some-targets-in-reducing-immigration-desjardins-national\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:59:57","slug":"canada-could-miss-some-targets-in-reducing-immigration-desjardins-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/canada-could-miss-some-targets-in-reducing-immigration-desjardins-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada could miss some targets in reducing immigration: Desjardins – National"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A new report from Desjardins suggests that while the Canadian government\u2019s plan to slow population growth is starting to work, it won\u2019t achieve its target this year.<\/p>\n

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The report released on Thursday says since immigration targets<\/a> were revised, there have been signs the influx of new non-permanent residents has slowed and population gains have decreased in key segments, with the newest immigrants seeing the fastest slowdown.<\/p>\n

Using data from Statistics Canada\u2019s Labour Force Survey, Desjardins\u2019 economic analyst LJ Valencia and deputy chief economist Randall Bartlett found that while year-over-year population gains remain high, month-over-month growth has slowed \u201cconsiderably\u201d from its 2024 peak.<\/p>\n

But according to the report, the current number of non-permanent residents coming into the country won\u2019t allow Ottawa to meet its target of reducing temporary resident volumes to less than five per cent of the general population.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur population projection is mostly unchanged,\u201d the report\u2019s authors write.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government still needs to stem the tide of inbound newcomers and see more [non-permanent residents] leave the country in order to achieve its population targets.\u201d<\/p>\n

In October 2024, the federal government laid out plans to reduce the number of new permanent residents in the country as part of changes to immigration targets aimed at freezing population growth.<\/p>\n

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Among the changes were also new levels for temporary residents, with plans to welcome 445,901 temporary residents by 2025, then reducing it to 445,662 in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Desjardins estimated new non-permanent resident permit holders dropped by 25 per cent year-over-year in the final quarter of 2024, but the total number rose almost 40,000, amounting to about 100,000 more than what it or the federal government had previously forecast.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur updated population and net [non-permanent resident] forecast suggests that [non-permanent residents] accounted for approximately 7.5 per cent of the population by the end of 2024,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n