04 December 2007

The changing face of urban Canada

However you might feel about it... it's not your parent's Toronto any more.
-- TORONTO -- One in every five Canadians is now foreign-born, the highest proportion in 75 years, a shift likely to have profound consequences for Canada's economic and cultural future.

Canada is becoming ever more diverse, Statistics Canada's 2006 census shows. The country's foreign-born population soared 13.6 per cent between 2001 and 2006 — four times higher than the Canadian-born population.
I should mention here... in the interest of heading off any more virulent, offensive comments... my parents were immigrants.