Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will significantly reduce the number of new immigrants in the country after acknowledging his government failed to get the balance right coming out of the pandemic.

The reduction marks a policy U-turn for the Liberal government, and is the first time that Ottawa has shrunk targets for permanent residents

Today, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced the 2025–2027 Immigration Levels Plan: a plan that will pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed,

TORONTO - Canada is set to slash the number of immigrants that it welcomes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday, in a sharp reversal for a country that bet big on immigration to boost economic prosperity and that has long cast itself as open to newcomers.

Canada is cutting its immigration targets by at least 20% for next year, and the targets will taper even more in 2026 and 2027.

The new plan will reportedly reduce the number of permanent residents arriving in Canada from 500,000 to 395,000 in 2025 and 500,000 to 380,000 in 2026. The government has set a target of 365,000 permanent residents for 2027.

Canada will sharply lower the number of immigrants it allows into the country for the first time in years, in a dramatic policy change for an unpopular government trying to hang on to power. Canada will bring in 395,

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday that Canada will reduce the number of immigrants arriving in the country by hundreds of thousands over the next few years.

Saying that Canada had invited too many newcomers in, in too short a period of time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced lower targets to slow population growth.

Trudeau conceded the country ‘didn’t get the balance quite right’ as it responded to the ‘tumultuous times’ that followed the Covid-19 pandemic.