Canada received the highest number of immigrants for at least 45 years in the first three months of 2016, according to the latest figures.
A Statistics Canada report shows 86,216 new immigrants entered the country between January 1 and April 1, as the Liberal government made good on its election pledge to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees.
The figures are the highest since the current way of counting immigrants was introduced, back in 1971.
"Canada has never received this number of immigrants in a single quarter," the StatsCan report points out. The previous record was set in the third quarter of 2010, when 84,292 new immigrants came into the country.
As a result, Canada's population growth also spiked during the first quarter of 2016, rising by 106,966 people to 36,155,487.
This was the largest rise for a first quarter since 1989, when a population increase of 115,420 was recorded.
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