Immigration: Ipsos Reid

Johal Dept: “I broke that taboo. I said, ‘No, we are living on an island.’ I wanted my kids to learn how to swim.”, according to Globe And Mail. The findings released on Thursday confirm what drowning-prevention experts have suspected for nearly a decade, Lifesaving Society public education director Barbara Byers said and her husband’s brother had drowned in Elk Lake near Victoria when he was just 15, and no one in the family wanted to talk about swimming. Ms. Johal’s experience – no pools, no open water and certainly no swimming lessons near the home in India where she grew up – isn’t uncommon among new Canadians. A new study shows that immigrants are more than four times more likely to be unable to swim than people born in Canada. As a result, they are at a greater risk for drowning, according to the Ipsos Reid Public Affairs study commissioned by the Lifesaving Society. As reported in the news.
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