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New census data released today shows Canada has the fastest population growth of any Group of Eight industrialized country. And most of that is coming from immigrants. [/p] The 2006 census data, released Tuesday by Statistics Canada, finds that newcomers made up fully two-thirds of Canada's robust increase over the last five years. Canada's native-born population, meanwhile, grew by only a fraction between 2001 and 2006. [/p] If current trends continue, Canada could get to the point where immigration will become the only source of growth. [/p] That likely won't happen until after 2030 when the peak of the baby boomers reach the end of their lifespans. [/p] Canada saw its native-born populace climb by just 400,000 people between 2001 and 2006. In contrast, there were 1.2 million immigrants who arrived during the last five years. [/p] Combined, the growth helped push the country's population to 31.6 million. [/p] The figures show an overall population growth of 5.4 per cent, up from four per cent in the previous five-year census period. Among G8 countries, only the U.S. approaches Canada's growth rate, with 5.0 per cent. [/p] Alberta and Ontario growing fastest[/p] Oil-rich Alberta saw its population jump a stunning 10.6 per cent from 2001 to 2006 -- and most of them came from fellow Canadians moving to the province for the glut of jobs and opportunities. [/p] Ontario's population increased as well, by 6.6 per cent. But of the 750,000-person increase, roughly 600,000 were immigrant newcomers. Half of the immigrants coming to Canada choose to reside in Ontario. [/p] The provinces of Saskatchewan and Newfoundland meanwhile, once again saw their populations decline, by 1.1 per cent and 1.5 per cent respectively. [/p] Saskatchewan has lost population in each of the last two census periods and is currently back to its 1981 enumerated total of 968,000. And Newfoundland is on a three-census slide and has seen its population fall to a level not seen since the late 1960s. [/p] Low fertility and immigration rates in the Atlantic provinces have left the region's population virtually unchanged. Atlantic Canada saw a population decrease of about 1,000 people since 2001. And fertility rates remained the lowest in the country, averaging 1.3 children per woman since 2001. [/p] Fertility rate stagnant[/p] Overall, the national fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman will have between age 15 and 49 -- remains stalled at 1.5, the same as five years earlier. [/p] The rate remains far below the 2.1 children per woman it takes to replace the dying population. [/p] While most industrialized countries have relatively low fertility rates, Canada lags far behind the U.S., which has a fertility rate of about 2.0. [/p] Canadians gave birth to more children on average than Americans in the period between the Second World War and the 1980s, with the exception of a period around the Vietnam War. [/p] But since the 80s, there has been a significant divergence, and it's not clear why. [/p] In the U.S., the large Hispanic population -- accounting for about one in seven Americans -- is pushing the national birth rate up. Hispanics have about 2.9 children per family. [/p] The closest high-fertility equivalent in Canada is First Nations peoples. But that group accounts for less than 5 per cent of the population, so the rate has little effect on the national average. [/p] Urbanization continues[/p] Not surprisingly, the census found that Canadians are choosing the suburbs over big city life, probably for the larger, affordable homes outside of the urban centres. [/p] More than two-thirds of the country's population now lives in or around 33 major urban centres. Fewer than 20 per cent of Canadians live in small towns or rural areas. [/p] "You can see the immense urbanization of our population," Anil Arora, the director general of Statistics Canada's Census Branch, told Canada AM. "Ninety per cent of the growth we saw between 2001 and 2006 happened in our 33 metropolitan areas." [/p] "What's interesting is you see the growth surrounding the metropolitan areas is double the national rate - 11 per cent growth in those areas." [/p] By far, the fastest growing municipality was Milton, Ont., about 55 kilometres west of Toronto. It posted a 71.4 per cent growth rate between 2001 and 2006.[/p] Okotoks, Alta., just 18 kilometres south of Calgary, saw its population rise 46.7 per cent. Airdrie, Alta., grew 41.8 per cent, Brampton, Ont., was up 33.3 per cent, and Saint-Lazare, Que., was up 32 per cent to round out the top five. [/p] The 2006 census was the first to allow Canadians to opt out of having their personally identifiable material become public 92 years after it's collected. Instead, many chose to keep their information from being released in 2098. [/p] Nationally, 56 per cent of respondents agreed to the release of their personally identifiable census information in 2098. [/p] The remainder either chose 'no' or gave no reply. [/p] The details revealed in a census are used by all levels of government to make policy decisions, from where to build the next hospital to where to place the next bus stop. Population counts also dictate how nearly $62 billion in federal funds are transferred to the provinces and territories. [/p] As well, average Canadians can access the data -- so that pharmacies, for example, can decide whether to stock their shelves with more diapers or arthritis remedies. [/p] More detailed information from the 2006 Census on age and sex and marital status of Canadians will be released throughout the year. [/p]
leave a spot for me, now. lol
That's okay. You can have my spot when I leave Canada for better-looking, Arab of Emirates. :)
why would you want to move there?
Dubai isn't the greatest.
I just heard that it's really nice there. Perhaps I'm thinking of vacationing rather than living. Anywhere BUT Vancouver.
There's an interactive guide on CTV.ca about population and the fastest growing town in BC is Abbotsford. Only explaination for that is people moving further out into the suburbs which isn't necesarily a good thing.
Not a fan of Vancouver anymore? What happened? where do you want to move to instead?
Why isn't it a good thing?
Actually the fastest growing city in BC is Kelowna, almost 10%.
It's not a good thing because it mainly means people are moving further away from the city, creating urban sprawl. Which means they'd drive more into the city. Creating more pollution.
It is also not a good thing because Abbotsford smells like cow poop.
lol cow poop.
Here's the CTV census graphic, pretty cool.
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Can I freely say that Vancouver sucks!? It's kinda okay for scenery and the mountains. Is there anything good about Vancouver?
I'm not saying that I'm unhappy here. My life is good, but I'd prefer to live my life somewhere else.
ah I see. So where would you move to? If you could?
Bikini Bottom is a nice place.
haven't decided. I have lots of investigating and travelling to do to figure out which areas I'd prefer to live.
hmmm talk to Devil about Kelowna he seems to be a big fan.
Yeah you should travel sometime, its fun. :)
Can't wait to take that drive to the west coast this summer for school.
List of Good places to live:
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Sportsdude wrote:
hmmm talk to Devil about Kelowna he seems to be a big fan.
Actually, you may have that confused with the North Okanagan. More of the quiet parts. North of Vernon, etc. Kelowna is nice to visit mind you.
Aww, purelife, I thought you liked Vancouver? I know I loved it a lot more after I moved to the US and came back. Too bad it is so friggin' expensive. Mind you, it is getting $$ in all the cities these days it seems though. I guess I left for a better job, and a better home.
I would move back to BC, but I doubt Vancouver.
Yup its expensive everywhere on the west coast. Its where people want to live. Cheapest in Canada is probably Winterpeg, if you can survive the winters.
Yeah, I doubt Winnipeg would be great on the 'ol snowboarding scene too? I heard you need a rifle to kill mosquitoes, not a swatter.
yeah all those lakes, bugs galore.
I will say this though. Manitoba has the potential to be a superpower province with an abundance of fresh water like that in the future.
Water is the most important resource on Earth...besides pizza that is.(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/11.gif)
true.
[div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]Aww, purelife, I thought you liked Vancouver? I know I loved it a lot more after I moved to the US and came back. Too bad it is so friggin' expensive. Mind you, it is getting $$ in all the cities these days it seems though. I guess I left for a better job, and a better home.[/div] [span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"]I would move back to BC, but I doubt Vancouver.[/span]
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Not really. I am making my life bearable in Vancouver while I'm still living here. The only reason why I haven't up and go to another place is that our family is here. If I was offered a better job, in say, Kelowna or Penticton, that paid me 20 grand more than what I'm making, YES, I would take it in a heart beat. I'm getting tired of the city life. The people here are freaking RUDE (not all, just some). It's damn cliquey. It's tough to make NEW friends and keep them. I've made friends but so many of them come and go. Nobody has the time to keep in touch. I could only do so much. Uh, I hope that I don't sound depressed or like I'm whining. I have no choice at the moment but to live it as much as I can since I'm in Vancouver. Did I mention that it's DAMN EXPENSIVE and nearly impossible to buy a home??!!!!
/end of rant
Its the same everywhere pl, my friend can't find a place to live without moving into the dangerous part of the city. And this is in the middle of the country. The bubble has burst here so to speak though, people can't sell their homes anymore.
But I understand.
Uh, I don't believe that it's the same everywhere. Housing prices are considerably lower in certain areas and it's a lot cheaper than Vancouver.
not necessarily. To get a one bedroom apartment here its 400-600 dollars a month. You'd be lucky to find that though.
4 bedroom homes no basement start at 250k. (that's my house) back when my parents bought it they got it for 75k.
But west coast is always more expensive then everywhere else because its where people want to live.
But the housing market here has slowed, construction crews have stopped building homes, my friends neighbour was trying to sell her house at 300k but nobody is buying so they dropped it to 250k.
I've looked at Vancouver homes and its the cheaper homes that seem to be the more expensive then they should be. I looked up my home in the Vancouver ads and it came out the same price range as what my family and my grandmother (she owns half of the house) got it for.
I know what you mean purelife. I fluked out. I was able to sell my tiny condo and when I moved, bought a nice house here. Thing was, Calgary was affordable up to late 2005. Now it is more expensive to buy a home here than TO!? I got lucky and beat the craziness.
You want to know what is really sad? There is over 20 million dollars in building permits expected for 2007, not ONE rental unit is expected.
Rich are getting scary rich, and the poor..shafyed!
I think the Okanagan is pretty pricey too these days?
I wanna move to Dog River, SK. Anyone with me?
Umm...sure...Only if I can go on a date with Lacey!!!(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif)
then there is the job issue. You can't get a job anymore. Its really sad. Nobody will higher you if you didn't graduate from college or if you somehow got a full time job that wasn't at Starbucks or something they'd still tell you to go back to school. So instead they force us to school we go in debt for 15 years and we come out and get a crappy job but that door opened aparently and you can move up the pay scale.
Never knew you needed a degree to answer phones nowadays.
Pretty much the corporate world is telling people my age: "Don't bother coming to us until you have a 4 year degree, I don't care if your qualified."
My friend learned that. He just wanted a full time job, couldn't get one, people wouldn't hire him, told him to 'go back to school' even though he doesn't know what to do.
Then when I took my spanish class last semester I was the youngest their. Everyone was in their late 20's doing the class because it would 'advance their career'.
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Umm...sure...Only if I can go on a date with Lacey!!![img style="font-style: italic;" src="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif[/img]
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Sure, you can sit at the counter and flirt while she makes you a chili cheese dog.
If you read the report it says in the future immigrants will be the only population growth. So going to go out on a limb here and say in order for Canada to survive it needs to reform its laws so that immigrants can get the jobs that they are trained for. Having civil engineers working at toll booths is not good for the country.
whoa- I just found the population clock
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