Northern Policy Institute (NPI) has launched the first of six annual surveys to track changes in attitudes towards newcomers, visible minorities, and Indigenous people in Northern Ontario.
NPI is hoping these surveys will help answer the question, “Is your community welcoming?”
The focus for the first survey is “welcoming attitudes towards newcomers in the community”, and NPI will be adding another in 2022. This next one will centre on reconciliation and welcoming attitudes towards Indigenous Peoples. NPI intends for the two surveys to alternate each year until 2026.
In partnership with NPI, Environics Research will be doing randomized telephone surveying in the ‘Big Five’ Northern Ontario communities: North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins, and Thunder Bay, which have all been selected to take part in the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP).
The survey will also be released online concurrent with the telephone surveys to ensure it is available to a wide audience in larger northern Ontario cities and to those living in rural and remote communities as well.
The current online survey will be available for four weeks from June 22 until July 16th.
If you would like to share your views on the welcoming aspects for newcomers in your community, you can find the English survey here and the French survey here.
