Recent immigrants are more likely to trust the media than people who were born in Canada or had spent more time here, federal data shows.
A report released by Statistics Canada on March 31 indicated that recent immigrants have a “substantially higher level of confidence” in the country’s media.
“For example, among South Asian people, 25 percent of those born in Canada had confidence in the Canadian media, compared with 57 percent of recent immigrants,” said the federal agency, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The data was drawn from the agency’s “Survey Series on People and Their Communities,” conducted nationwide from Oct. 14, 2022, to Jan. 3 of this year….