On Thursday, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, took a U-turn on mass immigration to Canada. He announced an 18% reduction in the number of Permanent Residents (PRs) the country will accept in 2025.
Initially, the Trudeau government proposed half a million PR acceptance for the next year. The number has now been revised to 3,95,000. Similarly, PR intake has been reduced to 3,80,000 for 2026 and 3,65,000 for 2027.
In a tweet, Justin Trudeau announced, “We’re going to significantly reduce the number of immigrants coming to Canada for the next two years. This is temporary — to pause our population growth and let our economy catch up. We have to get the system working right for all Canadians”
The development comes following growing opposition to the high levels of immigration to Canada, which was announced by Justin Trudeau after he came to power in 2015. His ‘Liberal government has taken in 1.32 million new immigrants between 2016 and 2021
In November 2022, he tweeted, ‘Last year, Canada welcomed more than 405,000 newcomers – the most we’ve ever welcomed in one year’. Within 2 years of taking office, Justin Trudeau had opened the doors of Canada to those facing persecution across the world. He had tweeted in January 2017, ‘To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada’.
While Justin Trudeau has been supporting immigration in Canada since 2015, his ‘liberal’ politics eventually caught up with him. Canada is going through a period of economic issues, worsened by unemployment, rising housing prices and living costs. With stiff opposition from citizens, Trudeau had no choice but to backtrack from his ‘liberal’ policies.
As per the 2021 Census, foreign-born immigrants constitute a whopping 23% (8.36 million) of the population in Canada. Meanwhile, the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail revealed shocking revelations on Tuesday that Canada’s National Security Adviser, Nathalie Drouin, and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Morrison were the ones who leaked sensitive intelligence about India’s so-called “criminal activities” on Canadian soil to The Washington Post.’
The information leaked days before the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) issued a statement officially accusing India of targeting Sikh Separatist terrorists in Canada. According to the media reports, the briefing to The Washington Post was not intended to be disclosed publicly until the official RCMP statement was released. In the briefing, the Canadian officials provided details of the allegations against India’s Minister of Home Affairs, Amit Shah, for his involvement in attacks on Sikh Separatist elements and intelligence-gathering operations on Canadian soil.
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