How do Canadians feel towards Immigrants?

Its interesting to note that a majority of grandparents of Canadians were born outside Canada. Against this l more than half of them believe that the government allows too many immigrants and think that the Government should accept less immigrants. Still 83.6% of Canadians believe that immigrants make a cultural contribution to the country and 75.0% feel that they make an economic contribution. While 61.1% of Canadians feel favorable to immigrants from Western Europe the least welcome are immigrants from Arab countries where only 34.4% of the population are ready to welcome them. The other groups of immigrants get following approval ratings Eastern Europe 56.2%, Latin America 52.9%, Asia 49.9%, Black Africa 49.8% and North Africa 47.2%.

Canada a country to envy

Its beautiful, political stable, socially tolerant and rich. Canadians enjoy the sixth highest GDP per head worldwide, making them richer than Japanese, Germans and French. According to some living indexes its the worlds fifth best country to live in. Quebec always trying to run and the US, the big brother watching you, gives some side taste, but will probably not change this in the near future. So apply for citizenship?

Well the country may have some flaws as well, depends from what corner one looks.
Canadians are said to dislike conflict and its politicians tend therefore to leave divisive issues alone. Canadians distrust big ideas preferring to muddle through. There is more to life than money they say, and it is worth to be a little bit poorer, if that is the price of preserving a widespread social model, a kinder, gentler and more egalitarian capitalism than the version they detect south of the border.
This doesn’t sound to bad. But there is one hitch to it. Canada spends due to this less on R&D and trains a smaller share of scientists and engineers to postgraduate levels than the US, which leads to slower growth than otherwise possible.

Big companies are rare. Canada’s share of self employed workers is twice as big as in the US and some 69% of its private sector employees work in firms with fewer than 100 employees. One of the reasons why foreign investment is limited is the existence of strong unions. Still if you want to immigrate that’s not bad at all.

Immigration in Canada

Canada’s population is just 32mio even though the country is the second biggest country worldwide.
Uniquely in the world Canada welcomes immigrants, now nearly 250000 every year. From where? Well nowadays most from East and South Asia. More than half of the residents of Vancouver and Toronto are foreign born. In Vancouver’s University of British Columbia half of the students are said to be speaking at home a language other than English.

Canada's unemployment rate is low and growth is strong, thus also interesting for immigrants.
And the trend is like in China go west. In this case it’s to Alberta, which has become a big success after its oil reserves in the oil sands have become competitive at the present high prices.(Breakeven price would be $30 while the actual price is in the range of $57, a good margin without doubt!) Doctors, nurses and teachers move there and Calgary the capital of Alberta has become a thriving city with all amenities.

In contrast to the US Canada is becoming more liberal and secular while Americans are becoming more conservative and religious. Canadians may decriminalize the use of marijuana, they abhor the death penalty and they invested in a generous welfare state including the health sector.

While US and Canada are countries of immigration, in 2001 11% of Americans and 18% of Canadians were foreign born, Canada is interested in skilled Asians while the US are mainly importing unskilled Latin Americans.