Minister: Canada Needs More Immigrants

MONTREAL - Canada's foreign affairs minister said Thursday that the country badly needed more immigrants to replace aging workers who are headed for retirement.

Pierre Pettigrew said that increasing the population to 40 million by welcoming more immigrants would help foot the bill for new infrastructure, such as roads and bridges.

"This is a vast country, the infrastructure is expensive and it's a bigger country than the United States is," Pettigrew said. "I am saying that if we were 40 million Canadians, that infrastructure would not be necessarily a lot more expensive, but we would be more (people) to foot the bill."

The minister, in comments to reporters after a speech in Montreal, said Canada was built by immigrants and that's the way it would continue to be built.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_on_re_ca/canada_immigrants_needed

They may get a bunch of hard working Americans coming their way soon!

:hi:

immigrants from south of our border. Actually, it's too damn cold for me. :-)

Going to visit soon...can't wait! :)

Not surprising that our main source of population growth has shifted from reproduction to immigration. Actually this is to the advantage of US war resisters ... during the Vietnam era we were experiencing a baby boom and had no shortage of young people, but now we do ... being under 30, and having trades skills, is a lot better now in terms of immigration/employment than it used to be.

of hard working mexicans and other latin americans who would love to go there. unless...they mean white immigrants

Please continue here

Thanks

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