Citizen and Immigration Canada's annual report-2003:

• Total 221,352 new immigrants came into this country in 2003
  
  
• New immigrants came from India- 24,560; Chinese-36,116; Pakistanis 12,330; Filipinos (11,978)
  
  
• About 5.4 million of the country's 31.4 million population are foreign-born, according to the 2001 census.- every fifth Canadian is foreign-born0
  
  
• About 73 per cent of the new immigrants into Canada settle mostly in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.
  
  
• About 55 per cent of all immigrants in 2003 fell under the economic class- Under this category, an immigrant should have assets worth $800,000. He should also invest $400,000 in Canada to get eligible for immigration. Before the transfer of Hong Kong to China, a large number of people from the colony had sought Canadian immigration under the economic class.
  
  
• Chinese are the most visible minority in this country. They constitute about 3 per cent of the population. Chinese is the third largest spoken language in Canada. And Ms Adrienne Clark, who is of Chinese descent, is Canada's governor-general today.
  
  

• Australia which has similar immigration policies and where foreign-born nationals account for 23 per cent of the population.