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Mary Crea-Arsenio, Senior Research Associate, Global Health, McMaster University

REVEALED: How smaller cities can integrate newcomers into their labour markets | Vintage Vibes

New Canadians take the Oath of Citizenship during halftime at a Redblacks and Montréal Alouettes CFL game in Ottawa in July 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

In 2022, Canada’s population grew by a million people. Nearly all this growth — a whopping 96 per cent — came from immigration.

That’s one million new people who need housing, education, health care and employment. The last time Canada saw such a level of growth was 1957, during the post-war baby boom.

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