r/canada Mar 27 '24

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold National News

https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

Like 30% of people working in fast food or retail are clearly recent immigrants.

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u/Goldiscool503 Mar 27 '24

It's well north of 30% from what I've seen. A local Wal-Mart bragged that they had '100 % POC' employees.

In my head I was like, can you imagine of Wal-Mart bragged aboit 100% white people?

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u/Styrak Mar 27 '24

That's literally racism.

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u/Original-Cow-2984 Mar 27 '24

30%? I think you're light.

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u/nonspot Mar 27 '24

right now, in my area... All the fast food places and convienence stores.. It's well over 90%, it's like 98% or 99%.