Wikipedia:Peer review/Economic impact of immigration to Canada/archive1

Economic impact of immigration to Canada
Looking for feedback on content, but also grammar and writing style, in order to qualify the article for Good Article status. Any suggestions are appreciated. Deet 19:32, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, AZ t 13:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * the article is too focused on recent immigration patterns. Canada has had a long history of immigration. The article should discuss historical immigration waves, eg. impact of Irish potato famine, 1880s opening of the west, United Empire Loyalists, etc. Suttungr 15:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. In my mind, historical material should instead generally be in the History of immigration to Canada article, and if important enough, into the summarized history section of the main Immigration to Canada article.  The Economic Council of Canada comments in the peer reviewed article, which are very specific to an important economic point, do refer to the economic impact of immigration going back to the 19th century. Deet 17:39, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure you can properly understand the economic impact of current immigration without a historical perspective. Besides which, the title of the article doesn't imply that it is going to be focused solely on the present day. MLilburne 17:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. I'll look again for historical information. I just don't think there is much historical material out there specific to the topic of the article, and I obviously don't want to get into original research.  I guess I can make some generalizations about how immigrants helped to support and form various parts of the economy (Chinese building the railway, etc). Part of the problem is that the government itself does not really provide any studies regarding economic impacts (either current or historical), but instead mainly just keeps coming back to the low birth rate issue. There is a lot of rhetoric regarding immigration (from all perspectives) and I'm instead trying avoid repeating that and focusing more on statistics and studies. That's a challenge with respect to the historical information (beyond the already included Economic Council of Canada and University of Montreal studies). Thanks. Deet 01:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Update. I've made some changes and added some historical context. Deet 02:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC)