A case for national reform
Canada first.
Always.
We exist to put Canadians ahead of foreign interests, foreign labour schemes, and foreign wars.
Borders, housing, and the national chequebook are not optional.
The case
Canada needs reform.
It is not too late.
The Liberal Party and the Conservative Party have hollowed out this country. Foreign interests and foreign wars come first. The Canadians who built the nation come after.
01 / Intake & capacity
At home.
Intake & presence
2010–2025Permanent admissions each year; temporary inflows stacked 2021–24
2010–20: permanent admissions only
Ottawa is flooding the labour market, the housing market, and the welfare rolls.
Jobs, storefronts, and homes go to a workforce imported for that purpose. Temporary work is treated as an entitlement. The people who pay for the country wait.
Federal and provincial governments answer to foreign constituencies before they answer to this one. That is not Canada.
- 281,000
- permanent residents admitted in 2010
- 484,000
- permanent residents admitted in 2024
- 3.15 million
- temporary residents at the 2024 peak ↗
Permanent admissions are an annual flow (IRCC). Temporary inflows stacked on 2021–24 are StatCan July–June NPR inflows mapped to those calendar years — not unique persons. The 3.15 million fact remains a stock peak, not a chart layer.
02 / The cost at home
Cost to keep them here.
Separate programmes. Separate reporting periods. All amounts in Canadian dollars.
- Asylum hotels & temporary housing$1.2 billion
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IRCC temporary accommodation for 61,000 claimants.
April 2020–September 2025
IRCC asylum support ↗ - Interim Housing Assistance$1.8 billion
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Support to provinces and cities since 2017.
As of October 31, 2025
IRCC asylum support ↗ - Interim Federal Health Program$896 million
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440,000+ asylum claimants among beneficiaries.
2024–25 fiscal year
IRCC programme spending ↗ - Settlement services · planned$1.2 billion
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Outside Quebec. Quebec’s separate federal settlement grant was $867 million in 2024–25.
2025–26 planned funding
IRCC settlement materials ↗
What about removals?
Ottawa does not publish what it costs to remove people instead of housing them. CBSA’s cost-recovery fees are $3,840 (unescorted) to $12,880 (escorted by air) per person — what someone removed at taxpayer expense must repay to return. That is not the full cost of enforcement, and it is not a substitute for the housing and health bills above. Source ↗
03 / Commitments abroad
Abroad.
The house here is not in order. The contingent liabilities keep growing anyway.
Since 2022, Canada has committed about $25–26 billion to Ukraine in military aid, grants, and credit. Under Mark Carney, Ottawa has also guaranteed loans: the cash is not sent up front, but Canadian taxpayers pay if Ukraine cannot repay the lender.
In December 2025, Canada backed a C$2.5 billion package that included World Bank and EBRD loan guarantees and IMF-related support. In September 2026, in Calgary with Zelenskyy, it added hundreds of millions more in guarantees and concessional loans — and signed a 100-year partnership.
Committed support
C$25–26 billion
Approximate cumulative Canadian assistance to Ukraine since 2022. Commitments include aid, grants and credit; this is not a cash-spent total.
Illustrative arithmetic using C$26 billion. Not a construction-cost estimate.
Selected commitments
- C$350 million
- Air-defence interceptors September 2026
- C$200 million
- EDC concessional loans for reconstruction September 2026
Selected announcements may form part of the cumulative figure; they are not added to it. Sources ↗
Contingent exposure
If Ukraine defaults.
Loan guarantees. Not money paid out up front. Taxpayers are exposed if the borrower cannot repay, under the terms of each guarantee.
- C$1.3 billion
- World Bank loan guarantee for 2026 reconstruction Announced December 2025
- C$322 million
- EBRD loan guarantee for gas and energy Announced December 2025
- ~C$435 million
- New EBRD loan guarantees for winter energy Announced September 2026
Guarantee amounts are shown separately from commitments and are not presented as current expenditure. Sources ↗
100-year partnership — a century of this country’s credit tied to another war.
The record
Sources & definitions.
Read the periods, instruments and definitions alongside the headline figures.
01 Immigration & resident counts
Permanent resident admissions (ink): Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, annual calendar-year admissions, 2010–2025. Temporary inflows (maple, 2021–24 only): Statistics Canada table 17-10-0008-01, Non-permanent residents, inflows, mapped 2021←2021/22 (697,162), 2022←2022/23 (1,067,601), 2023←2023/24 (1,251,653), 2024←2024/25 (676,160). Stack heights add the two layers for those years; they are not unique persons. No temporary layer before 2021; 2025 is permanent-only until the next inflow year is published.
The 3.15 million temporary figure in the facts is the October 2024 quarterly stock peak from Statistics Canada table 17-10-0121-01 — a population count, not an inflow bar, and not stacked on the chart.
The chart describes admissions, not a causal estimate of housing costs, health spending or wages. Illegal entry is not included as a separate quantified series here.
02 Domestic programme costs
IRCC committee briefs on asylum support, October–December 2025; IRCC settlement and departmental materials, 2025–26.
Hotel costs cover April 2020–September 2025. Interim Housing Assistance is cumulative since 2017, as of October 31, 2025. Interim Federal Health Program spending covers 2024–25. Settlement services are planned funding for 2025–26 outside Quebec.
These programmes have different scopes, beneficiaries and periods. No combined cost is calculated. Settlement funding is not an asylum-only programme.
03 Removal cost recovery
CBSA / Canada Gazette: removal cost-recovery regulations, SOR/2024-284, in force April 2025.
C$3,840 and C$12,880 are cost-recovery fees, not the full cost of enforcement. They cannot be used as a like-for-like alternative to the programme spending above.
04 Ukraine: commitments & guarantees
Canadian government announcements: Halifax, December 2025; Calgary, September 2026. Financial Times reporting on Canada's discussions concerning the EU-led Ukraine Support Loan.
The cumulative assistance figure includes different financial instruments. Selected announcements may already be included. A guarantee is contingent exposure, not current expenditure; a concessional loan is not the same instrument as a grant.
The EU proposal is unsigned as described in the September 2026 reporting. No Canadian share is assigned here. The home comparison divides C$26 billion by C$700,000 and rounds to approximately 37,000; it is illustrative arithmetic, not a housing delivery estimate.
Canada first. Always.
Borders. Housing.
The national chequebook.
They are not optional.