Wikipedia:Peer review/Immigration to Canada/archive1

Immigration to Canada[edit]

Looking for general feedback on the overall outline. Are there major sections that should be included? Any content feedback is also sought. Deet 15:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty good start. Is there some sort of debate in Canada about illegal immigration like there is in the United States? Apologize if that seems like a naive question, but if there is it should be covered. Some charts showing the growth of immigration would also help. Many statements could use citations, such as the following:

most numerous among these are Chinese (3.5% of the population), South Asian (3.1%), Black (2.2%), and Filipino (1.0%).

On a compounded basis, that immigration rate represents 8.7% population growth over 10 years, or 23.1% over 25 years (or 6.9 million people).

And so on....the section "Immigration categories" could use summary style. Right now it is just basically a list. If more information can be found, expand the Illegal Immigration section. Finally, the article is missing the most essential component: a History section! This is a must to give people background.UberCryxic 04:07, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll take all the comments into consideration for a re-write. No, illegal immigration is not the hot button topic it is in the U.S. because, like the article says, it's hard to get to, but I'll try to dig up more info. Deet 12:58, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article is not complete without a section on the history of immigration to Canada (or a summary and reference to another article on this topic). -- P199 12:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I'm getting together some info (I need a bit more time on really early immigration history). Deet 17:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's missing material about the following topics:

quotas on various immigration categories, and historical changes to them
credential recognition process - this is a big difficulty and hot topic in Canada
more description on economic immigrant category and sub-categories: investment, skilled worker, etc.
interview, scoring, judicial review etc. process for admitting immigrants
mention of Chinese head tax, a recent headline issue in Canada
an external link to http://www.cic.gc.ca/
the "cultural mosaic" an important and much talked about topic, counterpart to the American "melting pot".
Toronto was named by the UN as the prime example of a city where multiple ethnicities could coexist. It was particularly notable that they named Toronto above New York.
If you're going to talk about crime rates and tax costs, you'd better balance that with a discussion of the higher rates of entrepreneurship, involvement in politics, and broadened culture.

--Yannick 02:49, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great feedback! OK, now that's a to-do list to keep me busy. Does anyone have a reference to confirm the higher rate of entrepreneurship of immigrants (i.e., a study with evidence, not just a theory)? I would like to note crime rates, but I also don't know of any studies that actually track immigrant crime rates in Canada.

CIC is in the "see also" category link. The article used to have an "external links" section but it seemed to attract too many immigration consulting services b.s. links. Deet 03:01, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]