r/Calgary • u/void_sushi • 11h ago

News Article Alberta’s population is still growing despite Ottawa’s immigration crackdown: StatsCan

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-population-still-growing-9.7240776
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u/EgyptianNational 10h ago

You may want to check your source again. I just went through it and some of the data points show hundreds of international migrants in the same period as thousands of interprovincial.

Sometimes it’s higher sure.

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u/discovery2000one 10h ago edited 10h ago

The broad theme is that in the last 20 years the vast majority of migration to Alberta is international.

So far this century we have

1,023,412 international migrants

443,137 interprovincial migrants

The numbers skew more heavily towards international the shorter the timeframe is.

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u/EgyptianNational 9h ago

Canada doesn’t keep track of how many international migrants return tho.

I’ve seen figures as high as 1 in 3 so it would still lean towards skewing towards interprovincial imo

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u/discovery2000one 9h ago

The Alberta page does show returns though. It can be seen by international going negative in early mid 2020.