Though these disparities have been widely studied, more attention to the geographic variation of the labour market outcomes is warranted as the labour market position of immigrants and the Canadian-born differ across geographies; therefore, the comparison should be made in the Canadian economy but also in the context of regional and local economies. [...] This paper compares the labour market outcomes, specifically the participation and unemployment rate, and the median incomes, of immigrants and their Canadian-born counterparts using the 2006 Census data at the national and provincial levels, and across the ten largest immigrant-receiving census metropolitan areas (CMAs). [...] According to King (2009), university-educated immigrant earnings reached a 75.5 percent of the earnings of the Canadian-born in 2005, an indication that the deterioration of earnings was not a phenomenon confined to the 1980s and 1990s. [...] As the main interest for the analysis is the labour market outcomes, only immigrants and the Canadian-born population over the age of 15 – those who are able to participate in the labour force – are studied. [...] Census Metropolitan Areas Comparisons In 2006, the immigrant population in Toronto that was over the age of 15 outnumbered the Canadian-born population, while a significant number of immigrants were able to participate in the labour force in Vancouver and Montreal.