Immigration Policy
84 Percent
84% of Canada's population lives in a Census Metropolitan Area. Canada's new TR-to-PR pathway excludes all of them. A coherence argument about who the program is actually designed for.
Immigration Policy
Immigration Policy
Invitations Are Up, Landings Are Down: Reading Canada's Q1 Immigration Numbers
Canada issued 59,154 Express Entry invitations in Q1 2026 — and landed just 24,140 permanent residents in January, down 29% year-over-year. Reading the gap between those two numbers is the most practically useful thing a practitioner can do right now.
Immigration Policy
C-12 Is Not Just an Asylum Bill
Bill C-12's group processing powers are more consequential than its asylum provisions. What they mean, who they answer to, and what they leave unresolved.
Immigration Policy
The CRS Drops and the Language Floor Rises: What IRCC's March Draws Actually Signal
Three CEC draws at 508, 508, 507 — and a March 15 language floor rise for FSW and CEC. Read together, they describe a system selecting differently, not less selectively. What IRCC's March moves actually signal about Canada's 2026 immigration architecture.
Immigration Policy
The Conversion Canada Already Paid For
Canada is preparing to tighten immigration. Targets are down. The political narrative has shifted. And somewhere in that shift, 298,128 Ukrainians who came here under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) — and tens of thousands of others on special temporary measures — are watching their status clocks run out.