Canada Seeks Immigrants To Revive Hinterland

Canadian cities are some of the most ethnically diverse in the world. The country seeks immigrants to revive rural areas.

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October 3, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The goal is to send one million immigrants into the hinterlands over the next decade by matching workers with remote businesses and farms that are starved for skilled labor, and to spread Canada's multiethnic rainbow across the country's vast prairies, tundras and forests.Officials hope to remold an immigration policy that has turned Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal into three of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world to distribute the labor riches of places like China, India and Ethiopia more equally."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Canada Courts Migrant Families to Revive a Declining Hinterland

Wednesday, October 2, 2002 in The New York Times

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