by Lu Xu on imovie using Rawshorter and Befunky.

With apartment buildings springing up in the city, Halifax has had 3.5 times more of Mandarin speakers residing in the HRM. International migration is the key driver of population growth in Canada according to the newest census.

Immigrant languages are more commonly spoken in Canada’s large census metropolitan areas. The term “Immigrant languages” refers to languages (other than English and French – the national official languages) whose existence in Canada is originally due to immigration after English and French colonization.

The number of people who speak languages from Asian countries is on the rise as they are recent sources of immigration.

This short video looks at the newest census results and presents the trend of Mandarin speakers in both the national level as well as in Halifax.

All the information is adjusted after the alteration of the previous mistakes.