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Canada’s Population Hits an All Time High!

Legal Team — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:28:47 +0000

What exciting news this must be for Canada! Canada’s population increased to 35,151,728 last year which was largely driven by growth in the West, according to the 2016 census data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.

The country’s population has grown five per cent since the last census in 2011, when it was at 33.5 million, the highest rate of growth among G7 countries.

About two-thirds of the increase recorded in 2016 was due to net immigration into the country, while the rest was from new births.

Toronto remains the country’s largest metropolitan area at 5.9 million, increasing by 6.2 per cent since 2011!

Canada welcomes all individuals from all walks of life – we are looking forward to welcoming more individuals into our beautiful country, Canada!

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Why Now, More Than Ever, Canada Needs Immigrants

Legal Team — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:07:40 +0000

Across the board, Canada has consistently been considered one of the best places in the world to settle down. We are consistently considered one of the most peaceful and happiest countries, with a sterling reputation among other nations. But this leads us to an important question as we look towards the future: how will we be able to sustain this level of success and growth? According to Scott Gilmore, the answer lies in increasing our population, with the easiest way of doing so through immigration.

In his Macleans Magazine piece, Gilmore goes on to argue that despite our great attributes as a country, Canada will not be able to uphold our pattern of growth if we allow our population to continually dwindle. Though we welcomed more than 250 000 new Canadian nationals last year, it is not enough to cover labour shortages; consider this in tandem with a falling birth rate, and one can understand the distressing trend that our population is experiencing. According to Gilmore, Canada would merely need an annual growth rate of 1.3% to reach a long-term population that we can sustain, based on the infrastructure that we already have in place. Advocating for the great importance of immigrants in addressing this matter, he further states that:

“More immigrants mean more minds, more hands and more tax dollars. There is a misconception that new arrivals are a net drain on our economy. In fact, they are more entrepreneurial and work longer hours than average Canadians. The added muscle would make us smarter, stronger and louder.”

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Canada will need more than 70,000 workers by 2020

blgpc_web — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:26:01 +0000

The Conference Board of Canada, a public policy research organization, reports that mining within Canada will support up to 70,000 jobs in the Northern regions by the year 2020. The report attests that the people within the region and the rest of Canada will only gain to prosper from the increased exports, as countries grow a demand for minerals globally.

The report outlines that the annual value of mining activity within this region will continue to grow to nearly double by 2020, and calls for increased government investment through government-private partnerships that will help build the North that is estimated to produce up to $8.5 billion towards our GDP.

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