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Why Population Increase In Canada

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Canada released 2011 census data shows that one in five Canadians are immigrants, the Asian and Middle Eastern immigrants are most. According to census data, Canada's immigrant population now has 670 million people, accounting for 20% of Canada's total population. The immigration is the main reason for population increase in Canada. Recently, Canadian government considers changing immigration policy based on language and country because they will easily integrate to Canada. However, this policy is unfair for most of immigrants. The reason is that a variety of immigrants will help to contribute to the increasing of economy and innovation. In addition, Canadian can help immigrants integrating in to local community easily. Canada government considers that screen immigrants based on language and country, because similar language and culture will help new immigrant easily integrate into Canada. Others will be difficult. For example, according to Friesen (2012) provided an example about a Chinese immigrant Wade Sha. His English is not bad, but he believes that the language also is a problem for him, because his English has an accent, which the native speakers do not like. In addition, he does not know how to talk with people when they talk about hockey, because he does not understand this sport. However these problems …show more content…

In " How immigrants affect the economy: Weighing the benefits and costs" (2012), Joe Friesen report that increasing 100,000 immigrants will result real GDP increase over 10 years. He also argues that immigration has important influence for Canadian trade links. "A 1 per cent increase in the number of immigrants to Canada corresponds to an increase in imports of 0.21 per cent and exports by 0.11 per cent."(2010, N ,Keung). Friesen (2012) also reports that immigration can also contribute innovation. These shows that most immigrants provide many helps for Canada

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