Re: RE: Immigration
Hank C Cheyenne said:
Yup I agree with you shiva, some of the people on here are real morons.
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So people with diferent views are morons? Pretty intelligant. Unlike Parts of Alberta we welcome immigrants and they blend in with little problems here.
everyone gravitates to Ontario and Alberta.
Actually BC gets a hell of a lot more immigrants than Alberta. Together, the big-city trinity attracted nearly three-quarters of the newcomers: Toronto claimed 43 per cent, or 792,000 people, while Vancouver collected 18 per cent and Montreal 12 per cent.
Numure, Vitamin C, and NeoCON HUnter
you guys seem to be looking at this issue as a left vs. right stance. As in right wing wants to restrict and oppress immigrants and left wants to let them be free.
What did I say that upset you Hank? That our Canadian constitution gives people the right of mobility? or the part where Iget dizzy where you , well neocons try to spin your discrimminatory views and views that people should be forced to live in certain areas? We are a free country.
FYI-
Vancouver is home to people of many ethnic backgrounds and religions. Chinese is by far, the largest visible ethnic minority group in the city. Vancouver contains the second largest Chinatown in North America (after San Francisco's), and many multicultural neighbourhoods such as the Punjabi Market, Japantown, Commercial Drive, and Koreatown which is developing synergy around Robson and Denman Streets in the West End. Street signs bilingual in English and Chinese or Punjabi can be seen at these centres of ethnic concentration. Prior to the hand-over of Hong Kong to China in 1997, many immigrants from Hong Kong made Vancouver their home, giving it the controversial nickname HongCouver. This continued a tradition of immigrants flocking from around the world to call Vancouver home. Statistics Canada data shows that 17% of the approximately 2 million people living in the metropolitan area are ethnic Chinese. Other significant asian ethnic groups in Vancouver are Vietnamese, Filipino, Cambodian, and Taiwanese
Much of the European population consists of persons whose origins go back to the U.K. as it was the number one ancestry according to the 2001 Census, and until recently it was a truism that British Columbians with UK ancestry most likely have that directly from the British Isles, rather than via Ontario or the Maritime Provinces. Other White groups consists of German, Dutch, French of both European and Canadian origin, Ukrainians, Italians, Yugoslavs, Greeks and, lately, numerous Russians and Poles. There is also a sizeable community of aboriginal people in Vancouver as well as in the surrounding metropolitan region, with the result that Vancouver constitutes the largest native community in the province, albeit an unincorporated one (i.e. not as a band government). There is an equally-large or larger Metis contingent, with these being a mix of traditional "real" Metis from the Prairies and others whose mixed native/non-native ancestry qualifies them legally as Metis.
Ethnic origin
* European: 1,200,010 or 63.5%
* Chinese: 332,560 or 17.6%
* Other Asian: 161,145 or 8.5%
* Filipino: 54,280 or 2.8%
* mixed ethnicity: 44,680 or 2.3%
* (based on single responses)
About half the population is Christian, the vast majority of them being technically Protestant,(I like this part)
although Vancouver, like the rest of British Columbia, has a very low rate of church attendance compared to the rest of the continent and the vast majority of the population does not practice religion seriously. The Sikh, Hindu, and Buddhist populations are also very large, and within the growing Muslim population there is a large contingent of Ismaili Muslims who have settled in the area following their expulsion from Uganda.
