Canada still Needs more Immigrants

The population of Canada will approach 33 million in the coming year, according to Statistics Canada, which began its 2006 census in Quebec on April 27, 2006. In the last census in 2001, there were 30,007,094 people living in Canada, about 1.2 million more than there were in 1996. The Canadian birth rate remains anemic and the growth of the population relies on immigration, a trend that is growing, said the statistician. “More and more, the role of immigration is important,” Barnabe told reporters. “According to our projections, growth will depend solely on the contribution of immigration by about 2015-2017,” Barnabe said.