| ID: |
HARP-476 |
| Title: |
Keeping the door open for immigrants to Canada |
| Source: |
Canadian Speeches , v.7(7) November, 1993 pg 25-29 |
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| Year: |
1993 |
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0 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, human rights, movement and residency, civil and political rights, refugee, immigration, migrants, Demography |
| Abstract: |
The world’s economically advanced nations face enormous immigration pressures from a population explosion in the less-developed countries, and a rising flood of homeless people – refugees, displaced persons and migrants – already numbering 80 million. In the next 30 years, world population will increase from 5.5 billion to at least eight billion, more than 85% of whom will live in the less-developed countries. In the next 15 years, Africa’s food import needs are forecast to double. In Canada, immigration has increased from 84,000 in 1985 to a current annual rate of more than 250,000, a higher per capita rate than in any other country. A continued high rate of immigration is seen as important to Canada’s economic and other needs. But avoidance of an immigrant backlash and conflicts, as experienced elsewhere, requires public acceptance of fair and effectively-administered policies. The speaker was solicitor general in the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney and public security minister in the Kim Campbell government. |
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Keywords: Canada, civil and political rights, Demography, human rights, immigration, migrants, movement and residency, refugee
