Nearly 900,000 English, Foreign-Language Quebecers Have Left Province Since 1966: StatCan

Nearly 900,000 English and other non-French-speaking Quebecers have left the province since 1966, according to a Statistics Canada report. The report’s authors said the migration could have been more substantial, but there was a relatively low number of English-speaking people in Quebec to begin with. “We count 672,903 English speakers and 220,448 people who had a non-official language as a mother tongue such as Greek or Italian who left Quebec between 1966 and 2021,” analysts said, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. “The total of 893,351 might have been higher but for the fact “Quebec’s English-speaking population is smaller.” The report, “Interprovincial Migration By Mother Tongue,” said 324,761 English speakers have left New Brunswick, Canada’s only officially bilingual province, since 1966. Another 20,551 who spoke foreign languages also left New Brunswick....