Canwest News Service
National Post, September 30, 2008
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=849265
Immigration accounted for a large spike in the Canadian population growth during the second quarter of this year, the largest increase in 17 years, according to a Statistics Canada report released yesterday. Of the 125,800 additional people added to the Canadian population during the quarter, 91,600 were from another country. That is the highest number of immigrants Canada has experienced since the late 1980s. Immigration increased in every province and territory, with new records being set in Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Every region of the country except the Northwest Territories saw its population increase during the second quarter, bringing the country to a total of 33,311,389 people as of July 1. The Prairies and P. E. I. were the fastest growing provinces, according to the report.