Canadian Press NewsAlert: Canada home to 6.8M foreign born, highest in G8

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Canada home to 6.8M foreign born, highest in G8 | iNFOnews.ca
The Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa are seen on Tuesday, May 1, 2013. The debut of Canada's controversial census replacement survey shows there are more foreign-born people in the country than ever before, at a proportion not seen in almost a century, according to the National Household Survey. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

OTTAWA – Canada is home to 6.8 million foreign-born residents — one-fifth of the country’s population and the highest ratio in the G8, new data from Statistics Canada’s controversial National Household Survey shows.

It also says aboriginal populations surged by 20 per cent between 2006 and 2011, and that two-thirds of Canadians are affiliated with a Christian religion, including 12.7 million Roman Catholics.

But the survey — which replaced the mandatory long-form census cancelled by the Harper Conservatives in 2010 — is rife with warnings that the data may not be as accurate, given its voluntary nature.

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