StatsCan: Visible Minority Group

Statistics Canada Dept: This is an increase from 22 per cent only six years ago a trend that is similar to an increase in foreign-born and visible minorities in the United States, according to The Star. Assessing similar trends in Canada, StatsCan projects that the visible minority population in this country will continue to be bolstered by sustained immigration and slightly higher fertility rates in the next 15 years or so and oTTAWA By 2031, nearly 40 per cent of children under the age of one in Canada will belong to a visible minority group, Statistics Canada projects. The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday spotlighted a landmark demographic shift, reporting that for the first time more than half of children being born in the United States belonged to ethnic or racial minorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.