Canada

Canada: They're young, they're suburban, and they're mainly from Asia, although Africans are arriving in growing numbers, according to CTV. The new survey of almost three million people shows that Canada is home to 6.8 million foreign-born residents -- or 20.6 per cent of the population, compared with 19.8 per cent in 2006, and the highest in the G8 group of rich countries and OTTAWA -- The debut of Canada's controversial census replacement survey shows there are more foreign-born people in the country than ever before, at a proportion not seen in almost a century. But the historical comparisons are few and far between in the National Household Survey, which Statistics Canada designed -- at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's behest -- to replace the cancelled long-form census of the past. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.