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TORONTO A Statistics Canada report says that Canada’s population growth has “essentially stopped” due to COVID-19, with our population only going up by 2,767 from July 1 to October 1 virtually zero per cent. The report states that those numbers represent the “lowest quarterly growth since at least January 1, 1946,” which is the point at which comparable national data become available. “In March, Canada implemented restrictions on international travel due to COVID-19,” the report says. “The largest demographic impact on the total population came from losses in international migration.” Canada welcomed 40,069 immigrants in the first quarter of 2020, which is 61.4 per cent less than the same period in 2019 – but reported a net loss of almost 66,000 non-permanent residents, the report says. International students were also unable to bolster population numbers like usual due to border restrictions.