What does it mean to say one in four Canadians have come to the country as an immigrant, assuming that far fewer are Native Americans?

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Follow up question: at what generation are you no longer an immigrant: is second generation immigrant a contradiction?

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It means that about 25% of people living in Canada (as citizens or permanent residents) were not born in Canada.

Per the last census, there are 36.9 million people living in Canada, and 8.3 million of them were not born in Canada. By far the most common place of birth among Canadian immigrants is Asia – fully half of those 8.3 million people were born in Asia, 900,000 from India alone and 700,000 from China.

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