Immigration Is Essential For Economic Growth For Canada

22 Jun 2016

The politicians in Europe and US are contesting the merits of immigration meanwhile; the data has proved that Canada’s economic growth is solely based on the immigrants which are for the labor benefit.

The number of people migrating to Canada has shot up to 6.6% since last year. Jobs held by native Canadians were shot down during that time.

This depicted two things, the resource regions had struggle with keeping up with the economic growth due to low immigrant population. But the urban cities where population is thriving with immigrants the economic growth is on a hike.

Significantly, the data has shown that the Canada’s native population is aging and exiting the labor force even in the thriving cities. It is proved that without immigrants who have younger profiles Canada’s growth will cease.

Canada is turning out to be the case to study on for immigration, as it is aging faster than the most nations and is relying on foreign immigrants for employment purpose. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Toronto states that, the share of immigrants in the city’s workforce has been above 50 percent for the past 8 months.