Statistics Canada released the first tranche of results Wednesday from the 2011 voluntary National Household Survey, which replaced the cancelled mandatory long-form census.
The debut of Canada’s controversial census replacement survey shows there are more foreign-born people in the country than ever before, at a proportion not seen in almost a century.
They’re young, they’re suburban, and they’re mainly from Asia, although Africans are arriving in growing numbers.
But the historical comparisons are few and far between in the National Household Survey, which Statistics Canada designed – at Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s behest – to replace the cancelled long-form census of the past.
The new survey of almost three million people shows that Canada is home to 6.8 million foreign-born residents – or 20.6 per cent of the population, compared with 19.8 per cent in 2006, and the highest in the G8 group of rich countries.
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