Yesterday's report on immigration. When we are treated as “numbers”, common sense doesn't matter- what is hidden behind the "idle" numbers and slogans "we have fulfilled the plan"????
The Government of Canada happily reports: the intake of new permanent residents in 2025 was reduced by 21% - to 395,000, new students - by 10% - to 305,900, and workers - by 16% - to 367,750. On paper, this looks like a victory of common sense: less influx, less burden on the system. Behind the scenes in parliament, it sounds beautiful: "we are coping with the crisis."
But if you look inside the process, all this is pure statistics. The numbers are reduced not by “immigration management”, but by artificial manipulations‼️, which hit people, the economy and the system as a whole.
Permanent residents: invited hostages
The Toronto Star writes: as of July 31, there were 2,222,600 applications in the system, 901,700 of which were overdue backlogs. For comparison: in March, there were “only” 1,976,700 applications in the queue, 779,900 of which were outside the standards. That is, in several months of “systematic management”, the queue has grown by almost 250,000 applications.
And here is the paradox. The government proudly says: “we are reducing the admission of new permanent residents”. But what is really happening in practice? This is not a refusal of invitations, but a delay in the consideration of those already invited. People have received ITAs, they have nominations, they already live and work in Canada. But the system just puts their files on the shelf. Here is the government’s logic: "we invited you and then changed our minds." Common sense? none. Just surreal...
Students: internal discrimination
According to statistics, only 36,417 new students arrived in the period of January to June, compared to 125,034 for the same period in 2024. At first glance, this is a victory: "we reduced the flow." But where does the decrease come from?
From practice: they have begun to refuse in mass the children of foreign workers who already live in Canada. We are talking about families who arrived through CUAET, Israel program and other workers, tied to the employer whose children have reached the age of choosing professions.
Teenagers who grew up here cannot get a study permit. The logic is this: having working parents is not a strong argument. "Show me tens of thousands of dollars in your bank account right now" and then, perhaps, your child will be able to study.
But they continue to accept students from abroad. Moreover, my colleagues report: a real campaign of refusals to students from Europe has begun in Quebec. That’s a proven fact. And let's add here a new "paper" PAL (Provincial Attestation Letter) — a separate permit from the province to study. Universities and colleges have been taken hostage. The result? Mass layoffs of teachers, entire faculties are losing staff, and people are already looking for work in Australia or the UK. The education system is cracking, but in the reports in Ottawa — everything is just fine.
Work permits: quotas are killing industries
The number of new work permits has collapsed to 119,234 in the first six months, compared to 245,137 a year ago. But this reduction did not occur due to mass refusals, but because employers can no longer obtain LMIA. Quotas have killed the mechanism that has supported entire sectors of the economy for decades.
The government's logic is simple: "hire locals." But the reality is different. Agriculture in Canada has been supported by foreign workers for decades. Meat processing plants, fish processing, elderly care, hotels, cleaning, and even construction are sectors where "locals" do not go. The reasons are obvious: difficult conditions, low wages, seasonality. If you remove foreign workers from these sectors, the industries will simply stop operating.
And here is the main absurdity: breaking the system is easy. But what instead? There are no solutions: no retraining, no stimulation of industries, no real investment in wages. Everything is based on the principle of "maybe it will resolve itself." Only there is nothing to resolve, it will rot.
Refugees: growth without strategy
This is another story. From January to June, 57,440 new applications for asylum were filed, compared to 91,540 a year ago. It would seem that the number is much less. But the backlog is growing, as of July 2025, there are already 291,975 applications awaiting a decision, which is 25% more than last year.
And what do we see? This category is the largest in terms of influx, but here the government does not even try to build a system. People wait for decisions for months and years, the burden on commissions grows, and the infrastructure cannot cope. The result is chaos.
Conclusion: the government sacrifices the country for the sake of numbers
All these “cuts” are not a reform or immigration management. This is a statistical game for reports:
- We delay permanent residence for those whom we invited ourselves.
- We refuse to issue permanent residence permits to children of foreign workers in order to reduce the numbers.
- We deprive universities of teachers because of PAL.
- We suppress LMIA, killing employers who have been pulling industries along for decades.
- We ignore refugees, accumulating queues.
All this is not about common sense and certainly not about the future of Canada. It is about how to show “success” on paper. The economy, families and people become a side effect of these “beautiful” reports.
And here is the main conclusion: when we are just numbers for the government, common sense does not matter.
Oleksandra Melnykova, Canadian Immigration and Refugee Consultant.
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