Census takeaways: influx and integration key

Flirting with anti-immigration sentiment won’t work for political parties in 21st-century Canada.

Over the past five years, immigration has accounted for two-thirds of Canada's population growth. Based on current trends, it will account for 80 per cent in less than 20 years.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

February 15, 2017

MONTREAL—The population of every province west of Ontario is growing at a faster rate than the national average. The reverse is true of the five provinces east of Ontario. In the case of Atlantic Canada, the demographic shortfall is acute. New Brunswick's population shrank bet...

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