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Originally Posted by Crawford
The City of Toronto alone gets 30% of all Canadian immigrants. That's an amazing figure.
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But according to your link that figure is 10 years old. Immigration has increased a lot to smaller Canadian cities and provinces over the past decade as the federal government has permitted more provinces to run their own nominee programs. Toronto and Vancouver have also gotten much less affordable.
There is some discussion of the trends here, although these numbers are a bit out of date now too (a lot changed from 2012-2016 in terms of immigration policy and housing costs):
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2015366-eng.htm
Toronto's share of new immigrants was 48.4% on 2000 but that dropped to 30% by 2012. The Toronto metropolitan area's share of Canada's population was about 17% in 2011.
In the long run, unless something dramatic changes, I think the share of immigrants headed to smaller cities will continue to climb.