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Population growth in the first quarter of 2025, according to Statistics Canada, was 0.0 per cent.

Canada’s population has stopped growing.

That’s an important point to remember when you hear Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre complain that immigration is “out of control” and people are pouring into the country.

For a while, that was true. The numbers of international students and temporary foreign workers boomed in the years immediately after the COVID-19 lockdowns, when the Liberal government of then-prime minister Justin Trudeau made one of the biggest public policy failures in decades.

But the feds – notably Mr. Trudeau’s last immigration minister, Marc Miller – slammed the brakes on that in 2024.

Now net immigration is pretty much zero.

So when Mr. Poilievre declared

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