Shocking and unjustifiable:’ Canada is deporting migrants at its highest rate in more than a decade
Advocates for migrant workers say the surge in deportations follows Ottawa’s commitment to a ‘regularization program’ that would allow them to stay in Canada as the government responds to historic labour shortages.


Canada has spent more than $115 million deporting nearly 29,000 migrants since 2022, an unprecedented rate that flies in the face of the federal government’s promise to regularize the status of undocumented workers, advocates say.
In 2023, Ottawa spent more than $62 million on deportations, the highest amount spent in a year in over a decade, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) dating back to 2011.