Nearly 6 million respondents to Canada’s “2021 Census of Population” marked their ethnicity or cultural origins as “Canadian,” making it the most named of any ethnicity by census users, according to Statistics Canada figures released on May 10.
Question 23 on Canada’s last long-form census asked respondents to identify the “ethnic or cultural origins” of their ancestors—to which just under 5.7 million individuals replied “Canadian,” as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Statistics Canada figures show that most census respondents identified as simply “Canadian.”
About 5.3 million census users said they had English ancestry, while just over 4.4 million identified as being Irish, and nearly the same number said they had Scottish origins….