🇨🇦 New permanent residents down 20% in Canada. Nearly half the drop came from India

So the machine can slam the brakes after all. Canada admitted 83,130 permanent residents in the first three months of this year, down from 104,320, while study permits fell 24 per cent and asylum claims dropped 35 per cent, as reported. Amazing how the so-called unstoppable flows turn out to be perfectly stoppable once the political class feels enough heat from voters, collapsing services, and a housing market they helped torch.

The real tell is India: 10,125 fewer permanent residents, accounting for 48 per cent of the national decline, plus a 42 per cent drop in study permits. That says everything about what Trudeau-era Canada became: a giant education-to-immigration pipeline dressed up as compassion and growth. Ontario and B.C. built their cheap-labour, diploma-mill, real-estate-addicted model around endless inflows, and now we are supposed to pity the institutions that relied on it. No. A sovereign country is allowed to act like a country, not a clearance rack for global labour arbitrage.

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