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Canada added 1.14M people for 267K homes. Then it flipped.
Canada's population grew by 189,425 people between July 2025 and July 2026. Over the same 12 months, permits were issued for 303,006 new homes. Two years earlier there were 4.3 new residents for every home approved.
0.63 people added to Canada's population for every new home approved, July 2025 to June 2026
Two years earlier it was 4.26. In a typical year from 1957 to 2019 it was 1.81.
The full story, with the method and every source, is in Canada Approved More Homes Than Its Population Grew in 2025–26. See all videos, or watch on YouTube.