Boom City: Canadian Seniors

Indo Canadian Dept: These groups represent some of the most coveted demographics in this campaign. Both parties have tailored their policies and political strategies to appeal to new Canadians and their families. The Conservatives in particular, led by Mr. Harper’s lieutenant, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, have invested heavily in their ability to wrest these seats from the Liberals. The Liberals, who have seen their comfortable margins in the region dwindle, are endeavouring to hold on, according to Globe And Mail. Every evening around sunset, 30 or 40 Indo-Canadian seniors gather in Brampton’s Blackforest Park to chew over the day’s news, men on one side of the road, women on the other. These are some of the voters who’ve been the subject of relentless courting by the Conservative Party and together they make up the kind of suburban boom city that for the past two decades has attracted much of Canada’s population growth. Brampton was once a bastion of old Anglo Ontario, where the Protestant Orange parade was the year’s big occasion. Today, the flying of orange flags signals the arrival of the Sikh Khalsa Day celebration. Just under half the city’s residents are immigrants, and one in three is from South Asia. But stand still for a minute in Brampton and the ground will shift. The pace of growth here is relentless. The city, 45 minutes outside Toronto, added an astounding 100,000 residents between 2001 and 2006 as immigrants began to bypass the core of big cities for life in edge communities like this one. As reported in the news.
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