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Azerbaijani Canadians (Azerbaijani: Kanadalı azərbaycanlılar), or Azeri Canadians, are Canadian citizens and permanent residents of ethnic Azerbaijani background, or those who were born in Azerbaijan. Most Azerbaijani-Canadians have immigrated to Canada from the Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia or Turkey.
2,695 Canadians reported speaking Azerbaijani either as a first or second language, with 115 of those being second-generation immigrants.[8]
Unofficial estimates exceed the reported numbers. According to the member of Ontario Provincial Parliament, Reza Moridi, there are a total of 80,000 ethnic Azerbaijanis living in the province of Ontario in 2010.[9]
The first Azerbaijanis in Canada were Iranian Azeris, who began to settle there in 1930. The second wave of immigration occurred in 1950, when the Soviet Union was under Nikita Khrushchev. The third wave came during the Cold War, when many immigrants came to Canada from the Soviet Union, including Azeris. The fourth wave took place after 1979, at the time of the Iranian Revolution. Many Iranians, including ethnic Azerbaijanis, settled in Canada. Finally, the fifth wave of emigration came during the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1988–1992.
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