Immigration: Canada needs a strategy, not a numbers game
There have been many waves of immigration that have transformed Canada in decades past. Eastern European migrants headed to the Prairies at the start of the 20th century, forever altering the heart of the country. Canada welcomed Hungarians in the 1950s, opened its doors to non-European immigrants in the 1960s, embraced Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s and, more recently, gave a new home to those fleeing the chaos of Syria.
As the chart below shows, nearly a third of the population will be foreign-born by 2041, Statistics Canada forecasts. Already in 2021, 23 per cent of the population was born outside of Canada, edging past the previous peak set in the 1920s.
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