QTCE 3010Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Equal Protection Clause, Visible Minority

• School: Trent University
• Department: Queen's Trent Concurrent Education
• Course: QTCE 3010Y
• Professor: Fiona White

Document Summary

In 2011, canada had a foreign-born population of about 6,775,800 people. They represented 20. 6% of the total population, the highest proportion among the g8 countries. Between 2006 and 2011, around 1,162,900 foreign-born people immigrated to canada. Asia (including the middle east) was canada"s largest source of immigrants during the past five years, although the share of immigration from africa, The vast majority of the foreign-born population lived in four provinces: Ontario, british columbia, quebec and alberta, and most lived in the nation"s largest urban centres. Nearly 6,264,800 people identified themselves as a member of a visible minority group. Of these visible minorities, 30. 9% were born in canada and 65. 1% were born outside the country and came to live in canada as immigrants. Combined, the three largest visible minority groups south asians, chinese and blacks accounted for 61. 3% of the visible minority population in 2011. They were followed by filipinos, latin americans, arabs, southeast asians,