Canada’s population growth falls to lowest level since WWI

The contraction in non-permanent residents is doing more work here than the headline growth rate suggests: a shrinking temporary-worker and student pool feeds directly into rental demand, labour supply and consumer spending, sectors where crypto and tokenised-asset platforms have been courting Canadian users. Alberta's outlier growth also matters, since provincial-level divergence tends to reshape where new financial-product adoption actually lands. Whether the non-permanent-resident decline continues for a fifth consecutive immigrant-arrival drop is the open question.