Recent Immigrants More Likely to Have Confidence in Canadian Media: Statistics Canada

A man reads a newspaper while sitting on a park bench in downtown Vancouver, in a file photo. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

Recent immigrants are more likely to trust the media than people who were born in Canada or had spent more time here, federal data shows.

A report released by Statistics Canada on March 31 indicated that recent immigrants have a “substantially higher level of confidence” in the country’s media.