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Originally Posted by wayward_prince
55,000 Aboriginals lived in Winnipeg in 01 with a birth rate several times higher than everyone else. do the math, it equates to thousands yearly. If immigration numbers were what everyone is told the growth rate in Winnipeg would be more around the 15,000 per year average.
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ok...i'll do the math.....
from the city of winnipeg web site:
http://www.winnipeg.ca/census/2001/
between 2001 and 2006 the aboriginal population grew by 2200 per year....less than half of the growth for the city as a whole.
of that increase 2/3 was an increase in metis people....the population of non metis aboriginal people grew by only 600 people per year...
it is well documented that a substantial proportion of metis growth is due to an increase in people attaining their metis status....not actual population growth. (link below confirms this)...which even further reduces the true increase in aboriginal population.
so...if we assume that the population trends for aboriginal people established between 2001 and 2006 have remained reasonably constant...and there is no evidence to suggest that there has been any substantial change, 77% of winnipeg's current population growth is due to non aboriginal sources.
of the remaining 23%, 67% are metis, who have a 50% post secondary education rate (61% for non aboriginals) and much closer to the average income earnings.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-....htm#footnote3
so i guess that since 3/4 of winnipeg's growth is non aboriginal, we could say that comments such as
"Aboriginal growth is what grows Winnipeg more than anything." might be
'based of delusional myths.'
anything else to add?...you are zero for two here.