Chapter 1: Immigrants Urgently Needed
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The first chapter addresses four, mainly demographic, issues related to immigration and official language minority communities.
- It discusses the demographic gap that has developed between Francophone and Anglophone communities in terms of their “immigrant-richness.”
- It focuses on the origins and linguistic attributes of immigrants presently settling into these communities.
- It offers an overview of measures that have already been taken in order to increase the number of immigrants.
- It specifies how many immigrants are needed to join these communities in the future in order to close the existing demographic gap.
Examining these issues will allow us to situate the specific experiences of immigrants and the institutional approaches to immigrant integration, which are the focus of subsequent chapters, within the broader confines of Canada’s immigration policy and its policy towards official language minority communities.
