Canada sees fastest first-quarter population gain in 32 years - Immigration numbers also at highest since quarterly data began being collected after Second World War

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Canada’s population grew at the fastest rate for the first quarter since 1990 thanks to continued immigration.

The number of people living in Canada rose by 127,978 to 38.7 million, a gain of 0.3 per cent, in the first three months of 2022, according to Statistics Canada estimates released Wednesday. The report showed accelerating gains following a slow-growth period in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The majority of the gains came from international migration, which remains the driver of population and labour growth in Canada. The country welcomed 113,699 immigrants in the first quarter, the highest number in any first quarter since quarterly data became available in 1946. Canada’s biggest province, Ontario, also reached a milestone, with its population surpassing 15 million for the first time.

With an aging workforce and a record number of job vacancies, robust immigration will be “even more critical to the labour market,” the statistics agency said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has set an ambitious plan to bring in more than 1.3 million newcomers over the next three years to support the country’s post-pandemic growth. Last year, Canada welcomed more than 405,000 new residents, the largest single-year increase in its history.

New data on Canada’s immigration and labour supply from Statistics Canada also included these points:

• In the 2010s, immigrant workers accounted for 84 per cent of the growth in the total labour force and 55 per cent of the growth in the high- and medium-skilled jobs. They also offset a decline in lower-skilled jobs among Canada-born workers
• Since 2010, the shares of new and recent immigrants grew the fastest in transportation and warehousing, professional services, and accommodation and food services
• In 2021, recent immigrants, who were in Canada 10 years or less, made up eight per cent of the total employed labour force
• Canada is increasingly reliant on temporary foreign workers to fill labour gaps, with the number increasing to 777,000 in 2021 from 111,000 in 2000
• About one quarter of temporary foreign workers who arrived in Canada in the late 2000s and early 2010s became permanent residents within five years after obtaining their first work permit
• Lower-skilled temporary foreign workers tended to have higher rates of transition to permanent residency compared with their higher-skilled counterparts
• A third of international students who arrived in the late 2000s and early 2010s became permanent residents within 10 years

 

[Sicko Hunter]

It's going to get to a point where white Canadians are completely priced out home ownership in their own nation. And for what? So Trudeau could get good press about being progressive? What a joke. I feel horrible for Canucks.

 

[WonderfulTomato]

It's bizarre to witness a government that so clearly deeply hates its own people. The Democratic party is pretty bad in the US, but Canada is something else all-together.. What a miserable disaster.

 

[Megaton Punch]

It's bizarre to witness a government that so clearly deeply hates its own people. The Democratic party is pretty bad in the US, but Canada is something else all-together.. What a miserable disaster.

It really is surreal how quickly Canada went from America 2 to an iron-fisted dystopian hellhole I wouldn't move to if you paid me. All it took was the excuse of Covid and their government instantly dropped every mask, lifted every veil, and removed every glove. Not that ours didn't attempt to do the same thing, but at least in America our despots still have the common courtesy to tell us that our oppression and extermination are for the good of Our Democracy. In Canada they're already at the "the disobedient are not human and do not deserve to live" stage. That's gotta be record pace.

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

No thanks, we're full. Go back to Shittingstreetistan.

But that's the beauty of it, leaf. They're bringing the Shittingstreetistan to you.

 

[Scale Smerch]

Apparently many of these immigrants are leaving after seeing how shitty Canada is.

They are, it's probably one of the biggest hiding in plain sight developments right now and one of the reasons our tax base and healthcare system are both fucked. People only come long enough to grab citizenship to ensure "free" healthcare and get their entire extended family in, and then head back home. Contributions to Canada during the process? Nil.

It's a ticking time bomb though because between housing, inflation, and the Liberal refusal to even talk about it all the ground is ripe for a serious political realignment. Just need the job losses to begin out east and the fireworks will commence.

 

[Butterschmalz]

It is very important nowadays to learn. To learn how to shit on the street.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

None of the Canadian politicians had any interest in trying to increase the fertility rate in this country because that doesn't align with their political narratives. Instead doing the favor of the Kikes.

 

[Lord Neeba]

Quebec is a legitimate western ethno-supremicist state. French people are some of the most unhinged racist people I've ever met. Two beers in and they sound like poltards on crack.

And yet they still hate the Catholic Church too much to have enough children to do anything about it.

 

[TurdFondler]

A reminder these stats are understated. The numbers don't count TFWs, people on student or work visas or refugees. The number of people currently gaming the student visa system exceeds actual immigrants.

It's unreal, it's absolutely insane. Every single retail and restaurant job is staffed by middle easterners and Africans. It wasn't like that 10 years ago.

Also there's no investment in housing so real estate is fucked, and the refugees they're importing on humanitarian grounds have nowhere to go once their hotel stay is over.

 

[God of Nothing]

They are, it's probably one of the biggest hiding in plain sight developments right now and one of the reasons our tax base and healthcare system are both fucked. People only come long enough to grab citizenship to ensure "free" healthcare and get their entire extended family in, and then head back home. Contributions to Canada during the process? Nil.

It's a ticking time bomb though because between housing, inflation, and the Liberal refusal to even talk about it all the ground is ripe for a serious political realignment. Just need the job losses to begin out east and the fireworks will commence.

so many leafs hold their healthcare over us proud burgers
i'm glad the day of the rake is coming

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

Hmmmm accepting over 1 million "immigrants"a year will have a tendency to grow your countries population.

The sad thing is Canada needs this, the general population just isn't having children at anything near the replacement rate let alone the growth target.

In 50 years Canada will be another India. Full of street shitters, religous voilence and a nice healthy caste system.

Problem is you’re not replacing a worthwhile equivalent. These people are less productive and cost the system more. So we are literally paying more for less when we import immigrants. The short term “advantages” of cheap labor fall by the wayside almost immediately.

Don't lie to yourself you would do the same.

Not sure about Canada but in Burgerland, they’re not sending their best. It’s the people who are so useless that they get dumped on us. They suck up as many gibs as possible, wire it back home via Western Union and that’s it. They don’t intend to contribute to the economy or country. That concept does not exist to them. They’re the retards too dumb to be drug mules. People of actual value? Countries actually work to retain them. The rest of the world treats the west as their dumping ground for their most useless citizens.

 

[Clownish]

How absolutely sickening.

 

[Maurice Caine]

Not sure about Canada but in Burgerland, they’re not sending their best. It’s the people who are so useless that they get dumped on us. They suck up as many gibs as possible, wire it back home via Western Union and that’s it. They don’t intend to contribute to the economy or country. That concept does not exist to them. They’re the retards too dumb to be drug mules. People of actual value? Countries actually work to retain them. The rest of the world treats the west as their dumping ground for their most useless citizens.

I dunno, over here everyone that can just straight up leaves and it's not exactly easy to do so.

 

[Dan Abrams]

I have a friend who lives near Toronto and he told me once the Pakis just shit in the public parks there.

 

[Ow The Edge]

I have a friend who lives near Toronto and he told me once the Pakis just shit in the public parks there.

They are pajeets in denial, after all.

 

[Ser Prize]

They are, it's probably one of the biggest hiding in plain sight developments right now and one of the reasons our tax base and healthcare system are both fucked. People only come long enough to grab citizenship to ensure "free" healthcare and get their entire extended family in, and then head back home. Contributions to Canada during the process? Nil.

It's a ticking time bomb though because between housing, inflation, and the Liberal refusal to even talk about it all the ground is ripe for a serious political realignment. Just need the job losses to begin out east and the fireworks will commence.

Western Canada has already been decimated. But despite paying most of this nation's bills they couldn't care less. Let's hope this fuels Wexit.

 

[TurdFondler]

so many leafs hold their healthcare over us proud burgers

Lmao WHAT healthcare? 6 to 12 month wait to see anyone other than a GP or have surgery, 3 month wait to see a GP, barely any pharmacy coverage, no dental. If you get sick you go to some shitty overcrowded walk in at the crack of dawn and hope the doctor can see you that day.

All the good doctors leave and they're gearing up to privatize. The health system is stretched thin and importing more people isn't helping.

They're perfect workers though. Their immigration status depends on their employment so they'll put up with tons of shit, and they have no idea what an acceptable standard of living is.

 

[AnotherPleb]

That and a heaping helping of Balkanization. It's the only way some Whites will be able to survive the globalist's poop tsunami.

They sure don't expect anyone with a majority european blood to have a home after this because they're too fractious to be proper slave stock. Those Enlightmentent ideals of equality are really fucking troublesome for someone wanting neofeudalism, and all the third world mutts are too beaten down to care about it.

Don't lie to yourself you would do the same.

I don't quite intend on being an economic locust, but I have too much self respect for myself to even fathom doing that.

The also use Canada as a backdoor into the USA

This is the bit that people really don't want to talk about. All the focus is on that southern border, and I know there's some Americans that are quite interested in breaking the back of states like Montana and North Dakota while people are distracted.

It's going to get to a point where white Canadians are completely priced out home ownership in their own nation. And for what? So Trudeau could get good press about being progressive? What a joke. I feel horrible for Canucks.

Trudeau should be an object lesson for what can happen to a country when they focus on what feels good instead of what's best for the citizens. When white Canadians outside of the ludicrously wealthy can't get a home of their own for global finance's benefit, what happens then? I hope that Canadians aren't willfully disarming themselves, as they'll need all the guns they can get if this keeps up.

Problem is you’re not replacing a worthwhile equivalent. These people are less productive and cost the system more. So we are literally paying more for less when we import immigrants. The short term “advantages” of cheap labor fall by the wayside almost immediately.

Ah, late-stage capitalism is such a treat isn't it? Fuck any kind of actual sustainability, gotta go for the next quarterly profit above all else. Long term in this mindset is two years out at best.

Not sure about Canada but in Burgerland, they’re not sending their best. It’s the people who are so useless that they get dumped on us. They suck up as many gibs as possible, wire it back home via Western Union and that’s it. They don’t intend to contribute to the economy or country. That concept does not exist to them. They’re the retards too dumb to be drug mules. People of actual value? Countries actually work to retain them. The rest of the world treats the west as their dumping ground for their most useless citizens.

The rest of the world salivates at sopping up all those western funds too, so it's really an insidious form of economic plundering. Considering corporations are completely fine with ruining their environments I can see why they're fine being so mercenary there.

Lmao WHAT healthcare? 6 to 12 month wait to see anyone other than a GP or have surgery, 3 month wait to see a GP, barely any pharmacy coverage, no dental. If you get sick you go to some shitty overcrowded walk in at the crack of dawn and hope the doctor can see you that day.

You have dipshits in America bragging about that universal health care when anyone with a working set of eyes can see that the bottom is set to give out for natural born Canadians.

All the good doctors leave and they're gearing up to privatize. The health system is stretched thin and importing more people isn't helping.

They're perfect workers though. Their immigration status depends on their employment so they'll put up with tons of shit, and they have no idea what an acceptable standard of living is.

And immigrants are completely fine with piling up in houses so they're far more able to buy subsidized housing. There really is a perverse incentive to demoralize natural born people of western countries and I don't think this shit will end well at all.

 

[TurdFondler]

Honestly lots of immigrants are gearing up to leave. Canada is going to be (more of) a playground for the world's rich with an economic tourist ethnic underclass. They'll come in on 5 year visas, save up for a house and wedding back home and then fuck off.

 

[Maurice Caine]

I don't quite intend on being an economic locust, but I have too much self respect for myself to even fathom doing that.

Okay, let's picture it this way. You were born in Brazil. Brazil is a country managed by retards; not very much unlike your country, but the US has something Brazil does not have, cheap goods. What do Brazilians want? They want to live the coomsumer meme. They want big brand clothes, they want new cars every year, the latest iPhone, they want to own guns, etc. Problem is you can't do that when your economy runs on Brazil's atrocious economic system (and gun regulations). So what do they do? Everything they can do to jump ship up north. Now that also applies to guys like me that realize living in a banana republic has no future and will likely see me die penniless or get shot so what do we do? We fuck off. That's how it's always been, the Italians did that in the 20th century because it was a massive shithole. Same principles really. No shame in that.