Ontario Francophone immigrant profile

Ontario receives the second largest proportion of the francophone immigrants to Canada, accounting for over 70% of all francophone immigrants. [...] As Figure 2.1 shows, other provinces receiving relatively large proportions of francophone immigrants include New Brunswick (red, descending line), Manitoba (green line) and B. C. The most 11 interesting finding from this analysis shows that in contrast to the national average of francophone immigrants which steadily increased over 2001-2012, the proportion of francophone immigrants arriving in Ne [...] For example, in 2011-2012, the largest stream used by francophone immigrants was the Refugee class whereas in 2001-2005 and 2006-2010 the Economic Streams were the most popular (Figure 2.4). [...] In order to gain an understanding of how francophone immigrants are contributing to existing francophone communities, a profile of francophone immigration to traditional francophone centres was constructed based on the 2011 National Household Survey. [...] Based on CIC Francophone Definition (Section 1) SECTION 3.3: COMPARISON OF FRANCOPHONE IMMIGRANTS TO ALL ONTARIO IMMIGRANTS Francophone immigrants make up only a small portion (0.5%-0.7%) of all tax paying immigrants in each landing cohort, when compared to the proportion of francophone immigrants who landed in Ontario every year, which averaged about 2%.