{"id":132347,"date":"2024-01-05T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/canada-is-becoming-a-nation-of-immigrants-says-think-tank\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T15:07:44","slug":"canada-is-becoming-a-nation-of-immigrants-says-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-is-becoming-a-nation-of-immigrants-says-think-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Is Becoming A Nation Of Immigrants, Says Think-Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada is quickly becoming a nation of immigrants<\/span><\/a> as record-breaking immigration fuels the bulk of the country\u2019s population growth, concludes the chief executive officer of a Montreal-based think-tank.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re increasingly becoming a country of immigrants,\u201d Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) CEO Jack Jedwab reportedly told the National Post<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of identity dimensions, we\u2019re seeing across the board changes in terms of patterns of religious identification, less so of ethnicity, but more multiple identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

A new poll conducted by Leger for the ACS suggests Canada\u2019s population will double in the next 25 years, and nearly half of Canadians will be then identify as racialized or visible minorities.<\/p>\n

With that growing immigrant population, the Leger poll indicates Canada\u2019s demographics will change and Christianity will lose its status as the religion of the majority of the country\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n

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While 77 per cent of Christians identified as Christians in 2001, only 53 per cent of the Canadian population listed Christian as their religion by 2021, the Leger poll notes.<\/p>\n

The percentage of Canadians who report being atheists, though, is on the rise. In the past 20 years, the percentage of those who report no religion has grown from 16.5 per cent to 34.6 per cent in 2021.<\/p>\n

In the third quarter of 2023, temporary foreign workers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0international students<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and new permanent residents to Canada \u2013 drove the fastest quarterly\u00a0population\u00a0growth in Canada since the heady, post-war Baby Boom year of 1957.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada’s\u00a0population\u00a0was estimated at 40,528,396 on Oct. 1, 2023, an increase of 430,635 people up 1.1 per cent from July 1,\u201d reports Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n

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