Economics
Canada Suffers Slowest Population Growth Since World War I
- Drop in immigration was main drag on key economic engine
- Trudeau shifting focus to making temporary residents permanent
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Canada’s population grew at the slowest pace in more than a century as Covid-related restrictions curbed immigration.
The nation’s population rose by just 0.4% in 2020 to 38,048,738, Statistics Canada reported Thursday in Ottawa. That’s the slowest annual growth since 1916, during World War I. In absolute numbers, the 149,461 annual increase was the smallest since 1945.