Welcome

As of 2010, Canadians make up 0.5% of the world's total population,^[6] having relied upon immigration for population growth and social development.^[7] Approximately 41% of current Canadians are first- or second-generation immigrants,^[8] and 20 percent of Canadian residents in the 2000s were not born in the country.^[9] Statistics Canada projects that, by 2031, nearly one-half of Canadians above the age of 15 will be foreign-born or have one foreign-born parent.^[10] Aboriginal peoples, according to the 2011 Canadian Census, numbered at 1,400,685 or 4.3% of the country's 33,476,688 population.^[11]