So many canadians have already fled to places like america, I wouldnt be surprised if they wanted their country back.
While Canada may be experiencing record high population growth, there is an exodus of its citizens, with emigration or reverse immigration, surging this year. The outflow of citizens in the last three months has only been higher three other times in the past century, according to data from Statistics Canada. More and more Canadian residents are leaving to go live in foreign countries, with emigration up 3% in the last quarter.
In the last 73 years of data collection, only three other years have seen larger quarterly emigration numbers – 2016, 1967 and 1965. In 2016, a record high exodus occurred and that trend has continued with higher than average emigration becoming normalized. Quarterly outflows from 2016 onward have been almost 50% higher than previously. Canada is currently on track to hitting 79% of the outflow recorded last year, with 74,017 emigrants so far year to date.
The main question that this outflow raises is, if Canadians most familiar with the country see no opportunity in staying here, how could immigrants? The trend of onward migration, where immigrants arrive in Canada and then subsequently leave, has been steadily increasing since the 1980s. The number of permanent residents who pursued citizenship within 10 years of their arrival dropped by 40% between 2001 and 2021.
Immigrants are great, you can pay them super cheap, you can make landlords super rich, you can poison them, or kill them and then just deport/deny any compensation. Deny health services, no retirement fund. They are great, for the elite.
(Video by true north, same people who wrote the article I quoted.)
Why are so many people leaving Canada?
I have been reading about this for years, why would a doctor stay here and make a 120k a year when they could go to the states and live like rockstars in some of the rurual areas making more like 500k? Same with tech companys, most people who are actually innovative get out and work making more elsewhere.
So many canadians have already fled to places like america, I wouldnt be surprised if they wanted their country back.