The Canadian federal government is set to announce how many permanent residents and temporary residents Canada will aim to admit over the course of 2026.

On or before November 1, 2025, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will publish the 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan.

Each year's Levels Plan presents admissions targets for the coming year, along with notional targets for the following two years. <br />

Previous communications from the government have given us some indications of what we can expect from the upcoming Plan.

Stabilization of permanent resident levels

If the federal government keeps its election promise, we can expect that permanent residence admissions targets for 2027 will not exceed 416,500.

We can establish this expected upward bound because

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