Canadian Immigration Research Paper

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Why does Canada agree to either sustain or increase a high level of immigration? Canada has a rich and long history of immigration which can be traced back to thousands of years ago, and immigrants have been considering Canada as a land of immigration. Since Canadian Confederation in 1867, more than 17 million people from different parts of the world have immigrated to Canada. The yearly number of Canadian immigrants has changed greatly over the last 150 years; for instance, in 1913, more than 400,000 immigrants came to Canada, which was the highest number ever documented. The numbers of immigrants to Canada decreased greatly to fewer than 34,000 in 1915 during World War I; in the 1930s and during World War II, the numbers of immigrants reached