Statstics Canada: Record Pace and Atlantic Provinces

statstics canada: While the percentage of people aged 65 and older was 12.3 per cent in Alberta, it was almost 20 per cent in Atlantic Canada, according to The Chronicle Herald. If anyone wasn't attuned the fact already, these numbers tell us how important it is to attract more immgrants to this region and to retain them. It showed that between 2011 and 2016 the Atlantic provinces experienced the largest drop in the country in the proportion of people aged 15-64. Immigrants arrived at record pace in 2016, due in large part to an influx of Syrian refugees. Statstics Canada said if current trends continue, this difference between the provinces with the highest and lowest proportions of seniors could reach almost 15 percentage points by 2031. The challenge is to make strong immigration a regular occurrence in the region, and not an exception or only related to an humanitarian crisis, as important as it is for us to provide refuge in such cases. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.