My area was predominantly white, with a mix of First Nations and African Canadians as well. It feels like 1 in 5 of local residents now are from SW Asia. We definitely needed more people as the boomer generation passes. The speed and volume of the immigration is concerning though, because it hasn’t given local areas enough time to adapt to housing needs, and the volume of newcomers mean they tend to stick to their own enclaves, versus becoming part of a larger multicultural society which we’ve always been.
toilet_for_shrek on
>“When the government sharply reduces a stream in which one country is disproportionately represented, that country inevitably absorbs a disproportionate share of the cut,” Jedwab said.
That’s the simple explanation of it. Indians make up a disproportionate amount of virtually all temporary residency streams, so with the reduction of new temporary residents, of course a huge chunk of that reduction is going to be Indian
JohnDorian0506 on
We used to grant 250k per year, and that was enough and sustainable. Now, even after this “drop,” we are still projected to grant 446k PRs.
I intend no malice through this comment but I truely believe Canada should’ve gone the route of other countries and instituted immigration quotas per country. It would have resulted in an actual multicultural immigration plan instead of one that was dominated by only a handful of nationalities.
I truly believe that the large rebuke for immigration, at a certain point, was mainly because it no longer reflected the mosaic we expected. Instead immigration became very one sided and it seemed as if the government didn’t care about that at all.
HowIWantToBeFreeBaby on
Not enough. And we should have percentage (10%?) Per annum country caps like the states. We’re a nation proudly built on immigration – but we need to have assimilation and that can’t be achieved with ethnic/cultural enclaves.
**Edit:** Sure, insinuate racism – that’s constructive discourse (not). First, take a look at the repugnant and toxic Indian caste hegemony. Then ask yourself whether that’s something we as a country want to perpetuate culturally.
R4ID on
It’s still too high, we need to remove the program and leave it that way for the next decade to have a chance to even out the problems in the housing market
choomtown on
That’s a lie. Because if that was true, why are my rent and groceries and energy costs so bad and why are my wages so low. I was told immigrants were the problem.
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I don’t trust people in the comments who say “I’m ok with immigration but this too much from this one country was not ok.”
The country being referred to make now about 5% of the population, and Chinese immigrants are also at about 5%. The 90s/early 2000s saw a larger wave of Chinese immigrants. The waves reflect the stage of development and economic state of the region, and I worry these people will have an aneurism when and if there will be wave of immigration from Nigeria.
Majority of the country is european origin and you can find so many towns that are almost all white, not complaints of “mono-culture” there or “we need a mosaic”.
The comments make it seem like that is a reasonably intelligent argument. Lets have exactly 0.66% per county of origin from 150 countries.
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My area was predominantly white, with a mix of First Nations and African Canadians as well. It feels like 1 in 5 of local residents now are from SW Asia. We definitely needed more people as the boomer generation passes. The speed and volume of the immigration is concerning though, because it hasn’t given local areas enough time to adapt to housing needs, and the volume of newcomers mean they tend to stick to their own enclaves, versus becoming part of a larger multicultural society which we’ve always been.
>“When the government sharply reduces a stream in which one country is disproportionately represented, that country inevitably absorbs a disproportionate share of the cut,” Jedwab said.
That’s the simple explanation of it. Indians make up a disproportionate amount of virtually all temporary residency streams, so with the reduction of new temporary residents, of course a huge chunk of that reduction is going to be Indian
We used to grant 250k per year, and that was enough and sustainable. Now, even after this “drop,” we are still projected to grant 446k PRs.
Canada’s baseline permanent resident (PR) target for 2026 is **380,000**, with an additional **66,000** planned admissions through one-time in-Canada initiatives (20,000 for in-Canada workers and 46,000 for protected persons), bringing the total expected admissions to **446,000**. [[1](https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-levels-plans.html), [2](https://www.cicnews.com/2026/07/canada-boosts-transparency-on-permanent-resident-admissions-0778380.html), [3](https://www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publications/RP-2526-025-S–demographic-implications-2026-2028-immigration-levels-plan–implications-demographiques-plan-niveaux-immigration-2026-2028), [4](https://www.canadoreimmigration.com/post/tr-to-pr-canada-eligibility-news)]
I intend no malice through this comment but I truely believe Canada should’ve gone the route of other countries and instituted immigration quotas per country. It would have resulted in an actual multicultural immigration plan instead of one that was dominated by only a handful of nationalities.
I truly believe that the large rebuke for immigration, at a certain point, was mainly because it no longer reflected the mosaic we expected. Instead immigration became very one sided and it seemed as if the government didn’t care about that at all.
Not enough. And we should have percentage (10%?) Per annum country caps like the states. We’re a nation proudly built on immigration – but we need to have assimilation and that can’t be achieved with ethnic/cultural enclaves.
**Edit:** Sure, insinuate racism – that’s constructive discourse (not). First, take a look at the repugnant and toxic Indian caste hegemony. Then ask yourself whether that’s something we as a country want to perpetuate culturally.
It’s still too high, we need to remove the program and leave it that way for the next decade to have a chance to even out the problems in the housing market
That’s a lie. Because if that was true, why are my rent and groceries and energy costs so bad and why are my wages so low. I was told immigrants were the problem.
I don’t trust people in the comments who say “I’m ok with immigration but this too much from this one country was not ok.”
The country being referred to make now about 5% of the population, and Chinese immigrants are also at about 5%. The 90s/early 2000s saw a larger wave of Chinese immigrants. The waves reflect the stage of development and economic state of the region, and I worry these people will have an aneurism when and if there will be wave of immigration from Nigeria.
Majority of the country is european origin and you can find so many towns that are almost all white, not complaints of “mono-culture” there or “we need a mosaic”.
The comments make it seem like that is a reasonably intelligent argument. Lets have exactly 0.66% per county of origin from 150 countries.