Quality of life in Canadian communities : Qualité de vie dans les municipalités canadiennes : l'immigration et la diversité dans les villes et les collectivités canadiennes

Our thanks to all those who supported and assisted While no one questions the need for these services, in the preparation of this report: our sponsor, CH2M municipal governments will continue to struggle to HILL; the members of the Quality of Life Technical provide them unless they receive the appropriate sup- Team; the 24 participating communities; and the port and resources. [...] The impact of immigration on overall population is reflected in the relative growth rates of the non- Population dynamics in major immigrant-receiving immigrant and foreign-born populations, captured in centres are also affected by the size of recent immi- Chart 5. The non-immigrant population in the 24 grant households. [...] The the fall in the share of provincial landings in the share of economic immigrants destined for commu- largest immigrant-receiving centres of Toronto, nities in the rest of Canada more than doubled, from Montreal and Vancouver. [...] Chart 10 portrays this diversity and of the Total Population indicates the place of origin for the single largest The proportion of the total population living in the number of recent immigrants living in each of the 24 QOLRS communities born outside Canada is 24 QOLRS communities. [...] The story is markedly different in the rest of Asia/Middle East, other Southern Asia and Eastern Canada, where less than 10 per cent of the popula- Europe were the principal places of origin for recent tion was born outside the country, though this immigrants in 17 of the 24 QOLRS communities, proportion is also on the rise.