2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan

Canada's immigration cuts, meant to ease strained housing and social services, could hurt the country's labor pool, some industry groups said on Thursday.

While Canada has long prided itself as a place that welcomes new immigrants, public opinion in the country has recently soured on immigration, which has been blamed for reducing housing affordability.

Canada is set to bring in 395,000 new permanent residents in 2025, 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027, down from 485,000 in 2024, in the first multi-year reduction since Ottawa started laying out multi-year immigration levels in 2018.

Canada had planned to bring in 500,000 next year and the same amount in 2027.

Express Entry immigration will not significantly decrease from 2024 to 2025, based on the Immigration Levels Planning.

A new In-Canada sub- category focuses primarily on Canadian Experience Class candidates.
Category-based draws are set to change removing some key occupations.
The Provincial Nominee Program category sees a substantial decrease in allocated targets for permanent residents.

These immigration levels will most likely cause a population decline of .2% in 2025 and 2026.

2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan