First: The word is “emigration.”
Second: The article itself points out why this article is bullshit:
To be sure, emigration as a percentage of Canada’s overall population touched a high of 0.2% in the mid 1990s, and currently stands at about 0.09%, according to official government data.
The whole time I was reading the article, I’m thinking “Right… if you let in a record number of immigrants, then the number of emigrants is going to rise shortly thereafter. There’s just more people. You need to look at percentages to draw any real conclusion.”
Honestly wasn’t expecting them to give the percentage like that, showing that this article is nothing but fearmongering.The actual point the article makes is that people who immigrate to Canada are now leaving. What the article is saying is that Canada is becoming less attractive place to immigrate to, and increasing percentage of people who have immigrated to Canada are leaving. The fact that emigration from Canada hasn’t hit the point it was at in the 90s isn’t all that relevant here, it’s the direction of travel that matters.
Furthermore, vast majority of emigration from Canada was to the US, and the fact that less people are moving to US is more of a factor of US becoming unlivable than people choosing to stay in Canada because conditions in Canada are improving. The benefit of moving to US and getting much higher pay than before simply doesn’t exist today.
I’m now realizing my mistake in posting this comment on two places, haha.
Rather than duplicate an entire comment chain, I’ll link to my reply to this comment on the other instance:
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/6479149
