Statscan this morning published the latest population estimates for the country. The agency believes that, at July 1 of this year, Canada could count 32,967,000 citizens, which is about one per cent more than the same point last year.
Alberta's population is growing fastest at 3.1 per cent year-over-year while the annual growth in Ontario's population was the slowest since 1980-81.
The populations of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Yukon were smaller this year than last.
Fewer immigrants arrived in the Great White North for the year ending July 1, 2007. Statscan says Canada received 238,100 immigrants, a decrease of 16,300 compared to the previous year.