Tighter immigration rules aimed at reducing the number of temporary immigrants drove almost more people out than new arrivals and natural births. Photo by Peyman Fahimi. Postmedia

Once a runaway train, Canada’s immigration -driven population growth has come to a grinding halt.

For the second straight quarter, the country’s population changed nominally, compared with a quarterly growth rate of nearly one per cent last year, according to Statistics Canada data released Wednesday.

Tighter immigration rules aimed at reducing the number of temporary immigrants drove almost more people out than new arrivals and natural births, with an increase of 47,098 people or 0.1 per cent in the second quarter, the data showed. That’s a similar gain to the first three months of this year — and, except

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