The latest Focus Canada survey on Canadian attitudes towards immigration shows strong and increasing support for immigration across the board. Except for Quebec, governments, businesses, and other stakeholders have been successful in their demographic and economic arguments.
Even though Canada admits 400,000 newcomers yearly, 70% of Canadians still support current immigration rates - the highest number Environics has seen in 45 years.
The main reason behind this view is that there is now a societal agreement that immigration strengthens the economy and an acknowledgment that more people are needed from other countries to maintain population growth.
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October 28, 2022
According to Statistics Canada research, immigrants provide a solution to Canadian labour shortages. In fact, 84% of the growth in the Canadian labour force from 2010-2020 was due to immigration.
The Canadian economy is expected to benefit from an influx of immigrants, who will help fill job vacancies and ease the burden of rising wages.
Newcomers to Canada would help reduce country-wide job vacancies, which, in turn, would stabilize the Canadian economy.
The increase in immigration in the next few years will benefit not only immigrants coming to Canada but also the whole country overall.
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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220622/dq220622c-eng.htm
October 28, 2022
On October 26, 2022, Statistics Canada published the sixth round of the Census data report, announcing that immigrants made up almost a fourth of the Canadian population, which is the largest share in over 150 years.
Statistics show that as of 2021, 8.3 million people in Canada were landed immigrants or permanent residents, which is about 23% of the population.
This number has increased since Confederation and is currently the highest among all G7 countries.
As the Canadian population ages and fertility levels are below the population replacement level, immigration becomes Canada's primary driver for population growth.
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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/221026/dq221026a-eng.htm
October 27, 2022
According to a new study by the Angus Reid Institute, Millennials and Generation Z are leaving the hospitality sector in droves, leaving hotels and restaurants across Canada struggling to find employees.
According to these studies, the service sector has seen an 18 percent decline in workers over the last 2.5 years.
This includes a 22 percent drop among 18-24-year-olds and 15 percent among 25-34-year-olds. The 18-to-24 age bracket falls under Generation Z, while the 25-to-34 crowd is considered to be Millennials.
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October 20, 2022
