Last year, for the first time on record, more Ontario residents moved to Quebec
The caravan of moving trucks heading west on Highway 401 has been a symbol of the long-term decline of Montreal and the rise of Toronto for more than 50 years.
But some observers also see deeper forces at work, as Quebec’s economy catches up with its neighbour’s, political passions cool, and anglophones adapt to a province where French is predominant. The October Crisis of the previous year, in which separatist terrorists abducted and murdered a provincial cabinet minister, Pierre Laporte, raised fears of a wider insurrection. Toronto, for its part, was growing fast – construction started on the CN Tower two years later.
“A lot of the anglophones in Quebec who haven’t left are saying, ‘I’ve weathered this thing,’ and they’ve adjusted to the political currents,” he said. “You can actually buy a house here eventually, and it’s not a million dollars, and you can have a future,” she said.
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