Ukraine rose in the rankings of the most important sources of
new Canadian permanent residents in the first 11 months of 2020
despite COVID-19 global pandemic restricted travel.
In 2019, the Ukraine was in the 23rd spot on that
list, providing 2,995 new permanent residents to Canada.
But during the first 11 months of 2020, Ukraine's relative
importance as a source of new permanent residents nudged upwards as
immigration from Somalia, which had been ahead of it in the
rankings the previous year, was particularly hard hit last year by
the pandemic.
With the month of December figures still not in, the number of
Somalis who became new permanent residents in Canada dropped by
72.3 per cent last year, falling to 905 from the 3,275 who had made
the move the previous year.