There is a narrative out there that the current federal government has dramatically cut immigration. It’s false. The average annual permanent immigration level under Trudeau (2016-2025, excluding the anomalous COVID year of 2020) was 381,000. The new government has frozen annual levels at … 380,000. Yes, it’s about 100,000 less than the highest Trudeau year (2024), BUT it’s still about 100,000 higher than the highest Harper year. “Last year, the government said it would freeze the number of new permanent residents at 380,000 a year until 2028. It also cut the number of international students it planned to admit over the next three years in half.”