Canada Population Growth On June 16, 2023, Canada hit a population of 40 million people.
Between January 1st, 2023 and January 1st, 2024, Canada added 1,271,872 people (That's 3.3% growth rate). Much of the growth was driven by temporary and permanent migration, which Statistics Canada reported accounted for 96% of growth in 2022. Projections at the time showed Canada would hit 50 million by 2043.
On March 27th, 2024, Canada hit its first milestone on the way to reaching a population of 50 million people when the country grew to 41 million
Statistics Canada noted that without immigration, Canada would only have had a growth rate of 1.2%
Imagine the social support (pension, healthcare, education, housing) in ~20-30 years when these new comers retires from their low skills jobs, if they have a job, that contributed less taxes, less CPP while consuming and demanding good and services like 1st world society. Luckily most of us here won't be around by then to deal with this