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Immigrants increasingly from Asia and Middle East
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The first slide shows the evolution of the composition of our immigration in the post war period. As you can see, in the period just before 1961, the red dominated (representing Europeans). As we move to the right, in successive ten year periods, the red diminishes, and in its place, the green takes over (representing Asians) together with the blue, (representing people from the Caribbean, South America and Central America.) Those two colours now represent just about as large a proportion as the red in the immediate post war period. This is a big change, of course.
The next slide shows the proportion of visible minorities in our different cities. There are three factors that determine this picture. First of all, as I have just mentioned, an increasing proportion of our immigrants come from countries whose populations we call here "visible minorities". Secondly, a very large proportion of our population growth is due to immigration. And thirdly, most immigrants are settling in Toronto and Vancouver primarily. So not surprisingly, the face of the population in those two cities is changing. In 2001, almost 40% of the population in those cities were visible minorities. And it's a fair question to ask, in 10 years from now, in Toronto and Vancouver, who will be the visible minorities?
