Focus Groups: Host Population and Leger Report

focus groups: Participants were not placing the burden on the newcomer but rather on the local community, said the Leger report, submitted to the Immigration Department last fall but made public this week, according to The Chronicle Herald. Many comments were related to the host population having an individual responsibility or civic duty to be part that socialization process. The report into the results of five focus groups held across the country found that many participants were thoughtful about Canada's capacity to support and educate newcomers on our laws, values and general way of doing things to allow them to fit in. The focus groups were commissioned by the federal Immigration Department last year to help guide the plan for the number of immigrants Canada would accept in 2017. Participants also strongly believed that Canadians have a distinct approach to diversity and a unique sense of openness to difference, the report said. Even when discussing the challenges of immigration, attitudes about it were positive overall. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.