Minority Communities: Census Data and Borders Canada

minority communities: The news comes as part of a tranche of census data, released Wednesday, that paints a multifaceted portrait of a country where more than one in five people was born outside its borders, according to Toronto Star. Canada is now home to millions of people who claim more than 250 distinct ethnic origins, with historical lineages through Indigenous groups and countries all over the world. More than half of respondents to the 2016 census in the City of Toronto 51.5 per cent said they're from visible minority communities, a milestone that was narrowly missed when 49 per cent identified that way in 2011. What does your community look like We've been seeing this for 20 years now, that Canada is becoming more and more diverse, said Jean-Pierre Corbeil, Statistics Canada's assistant director of social and Aboriginal statistics. Five years earlier in 2011, the number was 49 per cent. /react-text Rene Johnston / Toronto Star Across the GTA, almost half 48.8 per cent of census respondents identified as visible minorities. Article Continued Below It's not surprising that we see the share of people identified as visible minorities increasing for sure, he said. react-text 163 In Toronto, 51.5 per cent of respondents to the 2016 census said they are from visible minority communities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.