Immigration to Canada is growing: whereas there were 117,036 immigrants to Canada between July 1, 1971 and June 30, 1972, there were 203,357 over July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1990, and 270,512 over July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 (Statistics Canada, 2011). Moreover, there is increasing representation of immigrants from countries in the global South: whereas in 1971, 62% of immigrants came from Europe and only 12% did from Asia and the Middle East, by 2006 16% of them came from Europe while 58% came from the latter regions (Figure 1).