Demography

Dept: But even the fast lane has its slower-moving vehicles. Unfortunately, on the Canadian Expressway, that s us, according to The Chronicle Herald. We can greet this by treating demography as fate. Or we can do something about it by drilling down into the data and learning from it and iN DEMOGRAPHIC terms, Canada is a fast-growing place for a developed nation. According to the first data from the 2011 census, the Canadian population has risen by 5.9 per cent since 2006, which puts us well ahead of other G8 countries. The Atlantic provinces have all actually picked up their rates of population growth a bit in the last five years. But the better rates 3.2 per cent for P.E.I., 2.9 per cent for New Brunswick, 1.8 per cent for Newfoundland and Labrador and 0.9 for Nova Scotia still look like Model T performance next to the Lamborghini acceleration of Saskatchewan, B.C. and Alberta. We re not even keeping up with Quebec, Manitoba and Ontario. And the full effect of our older population has yet to kick in. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.