Council established to help integrate immigrants.
By Anup Mittal | Sat, 12/06/2008 - 00:03
There has been an oversight committee which has been looting at issues pertaining to immigration to Canada.
To understand the needs of Peterborough, Mr. Ma presented some statistics from the 2006 census as stated below:
Twenty percent of Canadians are foreign born, out of which eighty-five percent live in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec.
The population of Peterborough County is 131,525 and among these 131,525, only 2,875 are non-citizens and rest 128,465 are Canadian citizens. Also, the population of Peterborough County is the second oldest among all Canadian cities, with 103,065 people over the age of 18.
The population of Canada has seen a growth of 5.4 percent, while the population of Peterborough has grown by only 4.8 percent.
While Toronto consists of 50 percent immigrants, Peterborough has only 9 percent immigrants staying there. The cities in between reveal that the further you go from Toronto, the fewer are the population of immigrants.
Visible minorities make up only 2.7 percent of the population of Peterborough, which is the same as Thunder Bay, while Kingston and Barrie have 5.8 percent and that of Canada is 16.2 percent.
Of the 12,450 immigrants in Peterborough, 7,888 speak at their home a language which is neither English nor French.
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