Immigration Curb Slashes Canada Population Growth Rate to Zero

Tighter immigration rules have cut off the fuel from the Canadian population growth engine.

Canada added just 20,107 people in the first quarter, essentially no percentage change to quarterly population growth, compared with an average of 0.3% over the past decade, Statistics Canada data showed Wednesday. Excluding the pandemic, it’s the slowest quarterly rate since comparable records began in 1946, tied with the fourth quarter of 2014.