(OTTAWA) Newcomers make up 23 per cent of Canada’s population, the highest proportion in the history of Confederation, according to new data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
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Updated at 8:55 a.m.
Thus, nearly one in four people in Canada was either a landed immigrant or a permanent resident in 2021 or had been, reveal data from the last census.
Statistics Canada indicates that this new record makes Canada the G7 country with the highest proportion of immigrants in its population.
The government agency points out that more than half of the new arrivals received recently come from economic immigration. Statistics Canada estimates that newcomers can fill labor shortages “in a number of sectors and regions across the country.”