Nearly half of the non-Native English and French speakers will choose to speak English to their families, making up 64 to 67 percent of the population in "English-speaking households," slightly lower than in 2011 (68 percent). But given the increase in the number of immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America, the "sphere of influence" of the English language has actually expanded. Together with French, the population speaking to family members in one of Canada's two official languages would reach 82 to 85 per cent.
Author | Rowan, USA
Source | Those things in the United States
Although Canada has been facing border closures and various pandemic restrictions this year, and has only the last two months left this year, Canada is still on track to successfully reach its goal of harvesting 401,000 new immigrants this year.
Not only that, Canada's immigration minister told Reuters on October 21 that Canada may extend a "new immigration policy" formulated this year to provide a way for more temporary residents working in key sectors to obtain permanent residency, and is considering expanding the eligibility of applications for the program to accept refugee applicants.
In April this year, Canada launched a new immigration policy, allowing more temporary residents living in Canada to obtain permanent residency, including temporary foreign workers, international students and so on. According to earlier accounts, the policy will end on November 5, but the amount of "health care applicants" has not been full.
Originally, 20,000 "healthcare" immigrants were planned, but as of Oct. 23, only 5,569 had applied, and more than 14,000 vacancies remained.
Canadian Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said: "I think we should be open to whether to extend the deadline. He also said that consideration is being given to continuing to expand the program in the future, including accepting refugee claimants and letting them issue work permits while waiting for immigration approval. I will always keep an open mind and seek more new policies that will deliver the greatest results for migrants, refugees and national economies. ”
Canada is struggling to bring in a total of 401,000 new immigrants this year, a record number. About 70 per cent of the 222,275 people who were granted permanent residency this year as of Aug. 31 were temporary residents of Canada, according to Immigration Canada.
And the Liberal government remains committed to setting more immigration records each year. It is expected that there will be 411,000 new immigrants in 2022 and 421,000 new immigrants in 2023. Canada currently welcomes more than 1% of its 38.5 million population each year.
At present, some industries in Canada have asked the federal government to accept more immigrant workers to solve the labor shortage.
Immigration Minister Mendicino said it was important to provide new immigrants with more "transition opportunities" and that it was "imperative" to protect workers' fundamental rights. "I firmly believe that immigrant status should not be used to exploit anyone... The transition from temporary to permanent residents can be one of the important factors in strengthening the relationship between employers and employees. ”
According to the website of the Department of Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees of Canada on October 30 last year, the "2021-2023 Immigration Level Plan" released by the Canadian federal government proposes that in the next three years, the annual immigration amount in Canada will reach 400,000, which will be the highest number of immigrants in Canadian history.
According to the plan, Canada will receive more than 1.2 million new immigrants in total over the next three years. Among them, it is planned to accept 401,000 new immigrants in 2021, rise to 411,000 in 2022, and increase to 421,000 in 2023. Of these newcomers, 60 per cent will be economics. Canada welcomed more than 400,000 new immigrants in 1913, a plan that broke the record of a hundred years earlier.
In fact, in March last year, Canada announced that it would accept more than 1 million new immigrants in 2020-2022, and the number of immigrants due to the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has led to a significant reduction in immigration. To make up for the decline in immigration in 2020, Canada had to expand its immigration program.
The Canadian government believes that one of the bottlenecks in economic development is the insufficient population, coupled with Canada's entry into an aging society, accepting a large number of new immigrants can alleviate these problems. For the economic recovery after the new crown epidemic, the introduction of a large number of economic immigrants can have an immediate effect.
The new three-year immigration level plan will continue to favor immigration programs in the economic category, with 58 percent of immigrants going through the Express Entry program, the provincial nominee program, quebec's program, and other federal agencies such as the Atlantic Immigration Pilot (AIP). Much of the annual growth of nearly 10,000 will also come from economic categories of immigrants.
Compared to 2019, the Government of Canada has raised its PNP target by 20 per cent in 2022. It is also planned to welcome more migrants under various pilots, such as the agri-food migration pilot and the rural and northern migration pilot, which will reach 5200 people per year. The Atlantic Four Provinces Pilot Program will become a permanent one, with the federal government stabilizing its target at 5,000 people per year during the program.
In addition, family reunification will welcome 26 per cent, while the remaining 16 per cent will be accepted for humanitarian and sympathetic reasons.
Historically, Canada's current level of immigration has been high. Since the founding of the people's republic of China in 1867, only five times have more than 300,000 new immigrants have been admitted annually; at the population level, the current level of immigration is even higher, because new immigrants are now admitted annually to 0.9% of its population. By comparison, the United States recently received an average of one million immigrants a year, but that number is only 0.3 percent of its population.
Canada's first census was conducted in the fourth year after the founding of the country: 1871. That year, the population born outside of Canada — not yet called immigrants — made up only 16 percent of the country's population, and the vast majority came from the British Isles and the United States, that is, almost all White English speakers.
This year marks Canada's 150th anniversary. According to statistics and projections released by Statistics Canada on January 25, in another two decades, not only will immigrants make up a third of Canada's total population, but more than half of immigrants will be Asian.
If you add second-generation immigrants born in Canada (i.e. at least one parent was born abroad), by 2036 almost one in two Canadians will be immigrants or second-generation immigrants.
In fact, at the time of Canada's 2011 census, the percentage of Asians among Canadian immigrants was close to 45 percent. Statistics Canada says that if current trends in immigration composition continue, between 55.7 and 57.9 per cent of Canadian immigrants will be born in Asian countries by 2036. Even this lowest point of predicted increase is more than half.
At the same time, the proportion of migrants born in European countries will fall from nearly a third today to 15.4 to 17.8 percent. This decline is much larger than the increase in Asians, meaning that there is a gap in the middle that will be filled by immigrants from Latin American and African countries in Africa, Africa and Europe.
The vast majority of Middle Eastern countries are located in West Asia, so immigrants born in these countries are also geographically Asian.
The population between the ages of 15 and 64 is referred to as the working-age population or working-age population. Colored minorities currently make up no more than 20 percent of Canadians in this age group, but in two decades they will make up 34.7 to 39.9 percent, more than a third of the workforce.
If broken down further among people of color, the proportion of South Asians will remain the highest, as it was at the time of the 2011 census.
The distribution of immigrants throughout the country is no more even twenty years later than it is today. By 2036, more than 90 per cent of immigrants will live in Canada's metropolitan areas, making these areas more likely to immigrate than other regions. For example, more than a third of migrants will live in most areas, bringing the proportion of migrants to their total population to about half (46 to 52.8 per cent). If second-generation immigrants are added, the proportion of immigrants in most areas will be 77% to 81.4%, and in the Greater Vancouver regions it will be 69.4% to 74% (excluding the second generation, 42.1% to 48.5%).
But in the four Katong provinces, quebec excluding Montreal and the five major cities, immigration will grow at a lower than average rate. For example, only 3.8 to 4.7 percent of newfoundland's urban and rural areas will be immigrants and second-generation immigrants. The Saguenay region of northern Quebec will be only 5 to 6.4 percent.
The number of people who do not belong to either religion will continue to increase, approaching or exceeding one-third of the total population (28.2% to 34.6%) in 2036.
In addition, nearly half of the non-Native English and French speakers will choose to speak English to their families, making up 64 to 67 percent of the total population, slightly lower than in 2011 (68 percent). But given the increase in the number of immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America, the "sphere of influence" of the English language has actually expanded.
Together with French, the population speaking to family members in one of Canada's two official languages would reach 82 to 85 per cent.
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