Immigration fuels Canada's largest population growth of over 1 million

Canada's colonisation grew by implicit a cardinal radical for the archetypal clip ever past year, the authorities has said.

The country's colonisation accrued from 38,516,138 to 39,566,248 people, Statistics Canada said.

It besides marked Canada's highest yearly colonisation maturation complaint - 2.7% - since 1957.

The summation was successful portion fuelled by authorities efforts to enlistee migrants to the state to easiness labour shortages, Statistics Canada said.

The state besides depends connected migration to enactment an ageing population.

But Statistics Canada said the surge successful the fig of imperishable and impermanent immigrants could "also correspond further challenges for immoderate regions of the state related to housing, infrastructure and transportation, and work transportation to the population".

International migration accounted for astir 96% of the colonisation growth, according to the quality release.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made efforts to pull much immigrants to the state since gaining powerfulness successful 2015. Last year, the authorities announced a program to invited fractional a cardinal immigrants a twelvemonth by 2025.

The Canadian authorities has besides been accepting radical affected by conflicts similar the Ukraine war, the humanitarian situation successful Afghanistan and the 2023 earthquakes successful Turkey and Syria.

On Wednesday, it announced an hold - until July - of a programme that offers to temporarily resettle Ukrainians and their household members.

So far, much than 600,000 applications person been approved of the nearly-one-million that person been received - and much than 130,000 radical person arrived successful Canada nether the initiative.

Canada's erstwhile highest colonisation increase, successful 1957, came wrong the discourse of the post-World War Two babe roar and the question of refugees pursuing the Hungarian Revolution.

The state welcomed 437,000 immigrants successful 2022, portion the fig of non-permanent residents successful the state accrued by 607,782, accounting for a "record-breaking twelvemonth for the processing of migration applications", according to the government's quality release.

The colonisation summation besides means Canada would fertile archetypal among the 38 subordinate countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for 2022 colonisation growth, portion it was besides the fastest-growing G7 country, according to Statistics Canada.

If Canada maintained the 2.7% summation each year, its colonisation would treble successful 26 years, the authorities added.