Slashing immigration has already been good for the Canadian economy

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New figures show that the extent of the Liberals’ promised cuts to immigration have already begun to slip, even as a new report finds that Liberal immigration cuts have mostly been good for the economy.

After the Liberal government promised last year to slash immigration rates in order to avoid overwhelming “community capacity,” Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada was told to hew to a target of bringing in 673,650 new temporary migrants in 2025.

A new analysis by the Association for Canadian Studies, however, found that in the first six months of 2025, temporary migration has already hit 557,335; 82 per cent of the total.

Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies, wrote in an email to the National Post that the federal government will li