Canada Defenders and General Social Survey of Statistics Canada

Canada multicultural policies: This in turn makes it difficult for them to establish a proper connection with Canada, according to Huffington Post Canada. Defenders of this view rarely provide supporting empirical evidence. Some observers insist that Canada multicultural policies encourage newcomers to maintain their attachment to their countries of origin. On the basis of data from the 2013 General Social Survey of Statistics Canada, in a previous text, I established that Canadians reporting a very strong sense of belonging to "people with the same ethnic/cultural background" as themselves also report a strong sense of belonging to Canada. Hence it remains unproven that it only when immigrant ties to their country of origin diminish that there can emerge a meaningful attachment to Canada. The same body of data further reveals that immigrants reporting a strong sense of belonging to their country of origin report a stronger sense of belonging to Canada than persons with a weak sense of belonging to their country of origin. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.