Immigration Policy: Canada Study

Mother Tongue Dept: A new Statistics Canada study, released Tuesday, showed that 55 per cent of the Canadian-born children of immigrants shared the same mother tongue as their mothers in 2006 — a jump from 41 per cent for their counterparts in 1981, according to The Star. “The most important factor is the extent to which children are exposed to those languages within the family.” Thanks to a post-war immigration policy that has focused on ushering in migrants as complete families, newcomer communities in Canada are faring better at retaining their mother tongue. “While immigrant groups of European origin have had more difficulty preserving their language over time, more recent immigrant groups, such as those who speak Spanish, Chinese or Punjabi, are generally more likely to maintain theirs,” says the report, titled “Evolution of Immigrant-language Transmission in Canada.” As reported in the news.
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