There have been important immigration related developments in the last week.
As we both agree that this is the most important issue facing Canada today, I wanted to send you a quick update.
Since he became Prime Minister last year, Mark Carney has made significant changes to address the immigration crisis.
Of course, these changes are not nearly as drastic as what is needed but they have been undeniably a step in the right direction after the absurd policies of his predecessor Justin Trudeau.
In 2025 Carney slashed intake levels of permanent and temporary migrants, set record levels of deportations, and imposed stricter rules for international students.
For the first time in Canada’s history we had negative population growth.
All of these were welcome changes and gave reason for hope in the new Carney administration.
But throughout 2026, and in the last week in particular, the shine has started to wear off.
Last week Statistics Canada issued a correction to their population stats. They found they had not be accurately tracking visa renewals by temporary residents or people transitioning from study to work permits.
It turns out Canada did not actually have negative growth last year, in fact our population continues to grow.
After setting a record of 23,160 deportations in 2025, figures have stagnated through 2026 to only an average of 1,862 per month — 22,345 projected by the end of year.
Not only is it disappointing to see these figures falling rather than rising, even the record is nowhere near high enough.
It is projected that there are more than 500,000 illegal migrants in Canada. There are about 100,000 more on failed asylum claims and 2 million expiring visas throughout 2026.
The government needs much more robust deportations capabilities to simply enforce our own laws.
At less than 25,000 deportations per year, this problem will never be fixed.
And to make matters worse, in an interview with the New York Times earlier this week, Carney signaled that increases to immigration were on the horizon.
In the interview, Carney focused on the rise in temporary migration since 2023.
He pointed out that the temporary migrant population had rapidly expanded from 3% to 7.5% of the overall population and that this was putting pressure on education, housing and other things.
As a result they issued reforms to reduce and cap the number of temporary migrants.
Carney is acting as if the situation is solved, but the reality is his changes have hardly made a difference.
The temporary migrant population has dropped by less than 1% to 6.7% in 2026.
After only a year of modest reductions, Carney is signaling that Canada is ready to start increasing immigration levels again:
“When do we resume some controlled increase in the population, which is the nature of Canada. So that will happen, and we just want to make sure that we’ve got it under control.”
This is completely absurd.
After a decade of Trudeau’s radical policies, Canada needs much more significant reforms to get our country back on track.
This is a huge opportunity for the Conservatives who have the chance to own the position of immigration restrictionism, or better yet, remigration.
The Conservatives have been quick to jump on this issue but they are still not going far enough.
It is not enough to reduce the numbers, we must to reverse the flow.
This is why an organization like the Dominion Society is important. We need a force outside of the political system to represent the interests of Heritage Canadians and put pressure on all existing parties.
We need to be able to punish the Liberals for this shift, and we need to be able to push the Conservatives to go even further.
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Long Live Canada,
Daniel Tyrie
Founders & Chairman
Dominion Society of Canada