Restoring Canada Special Series Part III: National Sovereignty in the Age of Mass Migration (C2C Journal)
Canada is undergoing one of the most radical demographic experiments in the Western world. In 2023 the country admitted 1.25 million newcomers, the highest number in its history, pushing the total population over 40 million. Underscoring the scale of this transformation, immigration now accounts for 98 percent of Canada’s population growth. This is not a temporary surge but a deliberate government strategy that gathered momentum throughout the Justin Trudeau era. In response to mounting public push-back, his Liberal government last year issued a smokescreen of grandiose pronouncements that masked a meagre underlying promise to “stabilize” Canada’s population growth – while maintaining a target of 500,000 new permanent residents per year, plus hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers and international students. The negative consequences to life in Canada have been glaring. Housing grows ever-less affordable, particularly in major urban centres like Toronto, Vancouver and Montr...