Nova Scotia a sliver in immigration pie
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 | 3:14 PM AT
CBC News
Nova Scotia still can't draw immigrants like the rest of the country.
Numbers from Statistics Canada released Tuesday show 45,190 people identified themselves as immigrants in the 2006 census, up slightly from five years earlier.
"This makes up about five per cent of Nova Scotia's population, so nowhere near the Canadian numbers, and that five per cent only represents 0.7 per cent of the Canadian immigrants," said Marc Melanson, a spokesman for StatsCan.
Nationally, more than six million immigrants make up nearly 20 per cent of the population, the highest number in 75 years. About 90 per cent of new Canadians settle in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.
Most immigrants who come to Nova Scotia settle in Halifax. Unlike the rest of the country, many come from the United States, though the United Kingdom tops the list.
Melanson said it shouldn't come as a surprise that more than 92 per cent of Nova Scotians report English as their mother tongue.
Statistics Canada has not yet released information about the age and occupations of the newcomers.
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