Canada has seen a record boom in its population, with Ottawa citing higher immigration targets and a “record-breaking year for the processing of immigration applications” as being responsible for the increase.The North American country documented an increase of more than 1 million citizens in 2022, bringing its population to more than 39.5 million, Statistics Canada, the government census agency, said on Wednesday.The increase “marks the first 12-month period in Canada’s history where population grew by over one million people”, the agency said in a statement.
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