By Vancouver Sun | Link to Article
The Alberta-based Canada West Foundation has suggested immigration to B.C. has become “stagnant.” Below are four facts to counter that false impression. (Source of immigrant pie chart: Metro Vancouver)
By Vancouver Sun | Link to Article
The Alberta-based Canada West Foundation has suggested immigration to B.C. has become “stagnant.” Below are four facts to counter that false impression. (Source of immigrant pie chart: Metro Vancouver)
The Canada West foundation has put out a report making the claim that immigration to B.C. has been “stagnant”since 2000 (see page 8).
This may seem confusing for Metro Vancouver residents, for good reason. The Canada West Foundation has been quite selective in highlighting certain statistical trends while downplaying others.
Based in Calgary, the Canada West Foundation went out of its way to emphasize how more immigrants than before are now going to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. But that hardly means B.C. is “stagnating” in regards to immigration levels.
Statistics Canada numbers paints a much different picture, especially in relationship to Metro Vancouver, which is the destination of nine out of ten immigrants to B.C.
Read more demographic facts at http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2014/03/07/migration-facts-b-c-immigration-hardly-stagnating/