We use a figure of 250,000, although our colleagues at Canadian immigration use a slightly lower figure. The reason is because immigrants, as opposed to second and third generation...it's a little bit of how you count people. We take the larger figure because we believe the people of Sri Lankan descent would be in the range of 250,000. I believe CIC is using a figure of 160,000 or something like that.
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