Fair Well Ontario: Canadians Leave the Province in Search of Affordable Living
Ontario residents leaving the province is not a first page, social media viral information. It is not even something you can hear once in a while on national or local TV. These sad and every day occurring circumstances are as it appears discussed only in private, shared between friends and family members. No news outlet wants to touch this topic as it is some sort of decease that no one is allowed to talk about. Yet, it effects hundreds of thousands Ontarian’s who have no other choice but to abandon their familiar places and familiar faces in search for better living conditions. A trend that started just before COVID outbreak, has spread like the worst plague across the province!
Many realtors and business owners who have bigger clientele in Ontario could tell you all about individuals and families leaving the province for better options. It begun with few stories and it developed in a mass exodus over just few months! NO, this is not an exaggeration, not klick and selling strategy, a simple fact that is very alarming. Some statistics show that In the first quarter of 2023, 11.564 Ontario residents moved to Alberta alone!
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Canadian Immigration and Emigration
According stats Canada, on October 1, 2023, Canada’s population was expected to be 40,528,396. This is a 430,635 (+1.1%) growth from July 1. This quarter’s population growth rate was the greatest since Canada’s population increased by 198,000 during the second quarter of 1957 (+1.2%).
After Confederation in 1867, Canada’s population has grown more overall in the first nine months of 2023 (+1,030,378 persons) than it has in any previous full year, even 2022, which had record growth.
While the immigration grows, so does the emigration. For five quarters running, Alberta has experienced advances in interprovincial migration of 10,000 or more, a first since similar statistics were released in 1971. The majority of Alberta’s interprovincial migration gains were a result of its interactions with British Columbia and Ontario.
When we see the numbers of new immigrants coming to Canada and Canadians emigrating to other provinces, no wonder no news outlet is taking about this! But these are just numbers of Canadian emigrating to other provinces, how about Canadians leaving Canada?
Statista, a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights snow that the total number of people who left Canada between July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, are some 94,576 Canadians. The province of Ontario accounted for the bulk of all Canadian emigration, with British Columbia having the second-highest number.
With interprovincial and international emigration, more than 15.000 Ontario residents leave the province every quoter and more than 45.000 every year!
When we compare housing prices alone from now and two decades ago, no wonder many Canadians struggle to make ends meet, especially in provinces like Ontario and British Columbia.
While very few things in Ontario change for better, this trend of residents leaving the province will most likely grow in months to come, leaving a big gap in Ontario including thousands of families and friends saying fair well to each other for good.
Who is to blame? People who leave the province are last to be blamed for this catastrophic fail.
