However, the root of reconciliation is the word conciliation, which is the action of stopping someone from being angry. When we have reconciliation, it means that we restore our relationship to one that enables us to be compatible and friendly with one another again.
Being a new world country, Canada has been predisposed to be a very open society with regards to immigration, which has been the most important factor in its historical population growth. Canadians comprise about 0.5% of the world's total population. An estimate in 2014 had the population at 35,344,962.
Population growth continued to be slow through the First World War, Great Depression and Second World War, following which growth rates began to increase again. Today, Canadaâs population growth is dependent on international migration. As of the 2016 census, Canadaâs population was nearly 35.2 million (35,151,728).