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In the eyes of Stats Can there is no difference between West Asian/Arab.
I guess West Asia is the new PC way to refer to "the middle-east". West Asians are therefore Middle-Easterners’. Many Middle Eastern people are Arabs. Hence two labels - one meaning.
If you want to be technical, not all "West Asians" are Arab, but close enough in the eyes of Stats Can. So there you go.