MONTREAL — Immigrants are increasingly choosing to stay in Quebec, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, but the same isn't true in the Atlantic region, which continues to lose newcomers to the rest of the country.
MONTREAL — Immigrants are increasingly choosing to stay in Quebec, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, but the same isn't true in the Atlantic region, which continues to lose newcomers to the rest of the country.
“It's also a question of competition. You want the best and brightest to stay because if you invest in them, if you select them, you do not want them to go to Ontario,” said Xhardez, who also directs ÉRIQA, a research group that studies immigration to Quebec. With the latest data already a few years old, Xhardez admits that changes in Quebec’s political climate -- the government regularly blames immigration for threatening the French language -- and the province's recent decision to freeze several immigration programs may impact future immigration trends. Such actions may have the effect of driving immigrants away, she said, especially considering other provinces also target francophones.
"Immigrants who left their intended Atlantic provinces were increasingly likely to settle in Ontario," the report said. Once again, the retention rates in Atlantic Canada were among the lowest in the country. In Nova Scotia, 61.7 per cent of immigrants admitted in 2013 were still in the province five years later, rising to 62.1 per cent for the cohort of newcomers who came in 2017. In New Brunswick, 51.7 per cent of immigrants admitted in 2017 were in the province five years later, a rise of 3.9 percentage points compared with the cohort who came in 2013.
"The second is family ties …. The third reason is a lack of community support,” he said, explaining that close-knit communities in the region can be difficult for newcomers, making them sometimes feel like outsiders.
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