COW – Permanent Resident Overview – May 28, 2026
- We are stabilizing permanent resident (PR) levels, keeping them at less than 1% of the total population beyond 2027.
- New PRs are planned to be only 0.9% of the population in 2028.
- Economic PRs will represent about 63% of new immigrants in 2026, and 64% in both 2027 and 2028—the highest percentage in over a decade.
- Between 21–22% of new PRs will be under the Family Class, 13% will be under Resettled Refugees and Protected Persons.
- We have 16,900 spaces over three years for the Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other category for our humanitarian commitments (e.g., Sudan, Ukraine, Hong Kong), and for applications based on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
- We also committed to increase Francophone permanent residence targets outside Quebec to 12% by 2029. This will strengthen Francophone minority communities throughout Canada.