One-fifth of Canadians were born somewhere else -- the highest among the G8 countries

[marmar]

[font size="1"]Toronto is one of the world's most multicultural cities.[/font]


(CBC News) 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 survey, which was eliminated.

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. ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/05/08/census-statistics-canada-household-survey.html

[bluedigger]

1. You'd think they would be more fertile...

what with all those long winters with nothing to do and all...

[PDJane]

2. Most of us are breeding at just replacement value or a little less.

My father claimed that we should have three children; one to replace each parent, one for someone childless.

We haven't been having children at that rate for a long time. One or two, usually; it's expensive living here. The Quiverfull movement didn't catch on here.

[ellisonz]

3. The Quiverfull movement

[LeftInTX]

4. It sounds so "Puritan"