3, 2019 – Further, the study found that more than a quarter of Canada's workforce, 26 percent, consists of immigrants.
Canada's baby boomer's generation is aging and moving into retirement, which probably accounts for the high proportion of immigrants in the country's workforce. Reliance on immigrants is likely to rise further in the decades ahead as fewer young native Canadians step up to replace the retirees.
This trend was evident in 2017 where just 59,000 new native workers joined the workforce while the number of immigrants joining the country's labour pool was significantly higher at 89,000.
Immigrants are likely to play a bigger role in Canada's economic growth in the decades ahead. In fact, the study predicts that in the next 15 years, one in three Canadians is likely to be an immigrant.
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