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What few Canadians know is that on a per capita basis Canada accepts more immigrants, refugees, foreign students and temporary workers than any other nation on earth. Far more!

The UK, for example, with a population of about 62 million, accepted 237,000 legal immigrants in 2007 (the last year for which we have figures). That’s roughly the same number of legal immigrants that entered Canada, population approximately 32 million, in that year, which means that every year, on a per capita basis, Canada accepts about twice as many immigrants as the UK.

The Americans welcome about 1.25 million legal immigrants into their giant melting pot each year. Once again, on a per capita basis, about half the number who come to Canada, although it’s no secret thousands more illegal migrants cross the border from Mexico into the southern states. The big difference in the US is that they have chosen the “melting pot” path. Below our border it’s a monoculture—American first, last and always.

Only Australia comes close to opening the floodgates as widely as Canada. With a population of 21 million, some 144,000 new Aussies are welcomed Down Under each year—still well below Canadian figures.

To fully understand the gravity of our situation and where mass immigration is inexorably taking us, we have to examine the numbers. Most Canadians have only a vague idea of how many newcomers we admit to Canada every year. Not only immigrants, but refugees, foreign students and temporary workers as well, all of whom place an increasingly unbearable strain on infrastructure and social programs. The sheer weight of the numbers, as you will see, is staggering.

Only accountants enjoy examining columns of figures, but if we are going to fully comprehend what we are doing to ourselves we must understand exactly what is happening. And in the case of immigration, it is the sheer numbers that pose the most obvious threat. So let’s have a close look at some of the head counts from an historical perspective, keeping in mind these figures apply only to legal immigration from 1860 until 2008, the last year for which we have accurate figures. These numbers include refugees accepted as landed immigrants. They do not include the huge numbers of temporary workers who pour into the country every year, the nearly 80,000 foreign students who are granted admission to our universities each year, and those who claim refugee status and are ordered deported but never leave. Those refugees probably account for at least an additional 20,000 a year!

Canada – Permanent [immigrant] residents as a percentage of Canada’s population, 1860 to 2008

Source: Immigration Overview, Permanent and Temporary Residents, Immigration Canada