Demographic Impact of Canadian Immigration Policy: A Replacement Migration Report

Abstract

Policies related with immigration are becoming unavoidable matter among policy makers in the context of demographic pressure in Canada. To correct ageing and population decline, which are caused due to the decline of fertility below replacement level, idea of using immigration is growing. Diminishing working age of Canadian population has caused policymakers to fulfill gap between annual immigration flows and workforce hiring in Canada. This paper contributes to this discussion by evaluating the current immigration policy in Canada with it attendant demographic impacts through a replacement migration report as an attempt to solving the declining and ageing Populations in Canada. Population distribution in terms of size, growth and workforce marginal gap excluding socio economic pattern have been captured by this study through the substance of the report. In Canada, demographic reflection does not cover it geographical composition. The paper will be descriptive and qualitative in nature through the use of secondary data sources for analysis. This study will give politicians a leverage to address the foreseeable inverse in the demography of Canada. The study will also avail to Canadian public an analytically sound, well-documented and evidence based information on the subject under study. The paper concludes that replacement migration may not be adequate to solving the demographic strain in Canada. Population ageing and shortage of workforce, geographical distribution, socio economic status related problems haven’t been solved still inequality of population distribution problem has been improved to some extent.