1(1) Saskatchewan 4.9
2(3) Alberta 5.5
3(2) Manitoba 5.7
4(6) Quebec 7.2
Canada 7.2
5(4) British Columbia 7.3
6(5) Ontario 7.5
7(7) Nova Scotia 9.5
8(8) New Brunswick 10.1
9(9) Prince Edward Island 11.6
10(10) Newfoundland and Labrador 11.9
Canada could soon stop accepting applications for immigration in an attempt to clear the backlog of more than a million people currently awaiting processing around the world, Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Friday.In Montreal to hold consultations on how many immigrants should be accepted into Canada per year - and just as importantly what kind of immigrants - Kenney told an audience at the Armenian Community Centre that clearing the huge backlog is one of the main challenges faced by his department as it plans for the years ahead."There's an unlimited number of people who want to come to Canada," Kenney said, adding that about 254,000 would be accepted this year, down from 281,000 in 2010."We used to have hundreds of thousands of applications more than we could process, and it's stupid and unfair to make people wait seven, eight, nine years for their application to be even looked at. That's the rationale for limiting the number of new applications."Two years ago, Parliament modified immigration laws to give the minister the authority to place a cap on applications, and this year Kenney has so far chosen to limit the number accepted in the Federal Skilled Worker program, for example, to 10,000. He emphasized, however, that Canada would still be accepting 65,000 skilled workers into the country, most of them chosen out of the backlog of applications.It remains to be seen which other categories may be capped, and at what level.Stakeholder consultations across the country on the right "mix" or "balance" of immigrants for Canada began two weeks ago, with employers' associations, immigration lawyers, refugee advocates and other interested parties. Friday's sessionin Montreal was postponed until October, however. Public consultations will be held online starting in August.Apart from dealing with the backlog, Kenney said he is looking for solutions on how to deal with an impending labour shortage as the population ages, without overburdening Canada's housing, health care and education systems with too many newcomers.
Canadians think size of population about right, poll finds, July 13.The Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies poll found a slim majority of Canadians think that Canada's population (34 million) is just right.
Size does matter! Our population is comparable to California's, yet we have the world's second-largest land mass.
Immigration must be a priority - you can't run a country this size without it. The United States prospered because it opened its gates - now it's 10 times our size.
Canadians love Canada's space, but Canada needs at least 150 million more people - preferably more. Sixty per cent of our popu-lation live within a few hundred miles of the U.S. border. A large part of Canada remains unused.
Many think our north can't be populated. It can with investment and new technologies. Switzerland fits inside Algonquin Park! France and England take up Ontario (with room left over Liechtenstein). We're definitely under-populated.
People want Canada's postcard look, but don't want anyone else to live here. If Canada doesn't increase its population the quality of life for will fall exponentially. There's a definite and important correlation between a country's population size and the health of the economy.
Canada needs a 'Statue of Liberty" effect - more assertive and industrious attitudes to attract hard-work-ing immigrants. Canada has been called the largest hotel in the world - that should be changed to one of the largest houses in the world. People should be enticed, so they can work hard, build a good life and adopt enviable Canadian values of dignity, tolerance, and fairness.
Canada is not "just right" with only 34 million people. If this attitude persists, taxes will increase, and some otherwise needless social programs will prosper.
A land mass of almost 10 million square kilometres with only 34 million people will carry that burden.
Bring me your hardworking, your ambitious, your visionaries.
Let the immigration revolution begin.
1. British Columbia 1.045
2. Ontario 936
3. Alberta 884
4. Nova Scotia 799
5. Quebec 738
6. Manitoba 709
7. Newfounland and Labrador 651
8. Prince Edward Island 642
9. New Brunswick 63710. Saskatchewan 613
1. British Columbia 461.931
2. Alberta 346,955
3. Ontario 325,364
4. Saskatchewan 234.655
5. Quebec 228,184
6. Newfoundland and Labrador 211.844
7. Manitoba 204,465
8. Nova Scotia 203,725
9. New Brunswick 160,400
10. Prince Edward Island 148,885
1(1) Saskatchewan 4.9
2(2) Manitoba 5.5
3(3) Alberta 5.6
4(5) British Columbia 7.3
Canada 7.4
5(6) Ontario 7.7
6(4) Quebec 7.9
7(7) Nova Scotia 8.7
8(8) New Brunswick 9.6
9(10) Prince Edward Island 12.0
10(9) Newfoundland and Labrador 12.3
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