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Policy experts suggest that Indian students intending to go to the US are instead moving to Canada because of the former's unfavorable quota-based H-1B visa program. The decisions of Australia and New Zealand to close borders to international students in 2021 also contributed to the surge in Indian student migration to Canada.
Punjabi Canadians. Punjabi Canadians number approximately 950,000 and account for roughly 2.6% of Canada's population, as per the 2021 Canadian census. [a] Their heritage originates wholly or partly from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. Punjabis first arrived in Canada during the late 19th century to work in the forestry industry.
Canada–India relations also referred to as Indo-Canadian relations, are the bilateral relations between Canada and India. [3] Canada and India have had longstanding bilateral relations, with shared traditions such as democracy. [4] India has become one of the top source countries for immigration to Canada with Indian diaspora increasing to ...
Indo-Canadians or Indian Canadians, are Canadians who have ancestry from India. The term East Indian is sometimes used to avoid confusion with the Indigenous peoples of Canada. Categorically, Indo-Canadians comprise a subgroup of South Asian Canadians which is a further subgroup of Asian Canadians. According to Statistics Canada, Indians are ...
In 2014, Canada aimed to raise the number of international students from around 240,000 to over 450,000 by the year 2022. [9] As of 2023, there are over 1,040,985 individuals holding study permits within the country, a 29% increase over 2022, [10] with them accounting for over 2% the population of the country. [11]
Canada receives its immigrant population from almost 200 countries. Statistics Canada projects that immigrants will represent between 29.1% and 34.0% of Canada's population in 2041, compared with 23.0% in 2021, while the Canadian population with at least one foreign born parent (first and second generation persons) could rise to between 49.8% and 54.3%, up from 44.0% in 2021.
South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area.
The term "East Indian" was a historical term used widely in Canada to refer to people hailing from India as opposed to Aboriginal peoples who are also sometimes referred to as "Indian". This term has been made less common after the introduction of the general term "South Asian" in areas with significant Indian Canadian populations like Toronto .