Interprovincial migration shifts in Canada / : Évolution de la migration interprovinciale au Canada

Consistent with general perception, the destination of migrants is increasingly the greener economic pastures of Alberta and Saskatchewan – as these were the only two provinces to record net gains in 2012. [...] The net declines recorded in British Columbia and Manitoba likely reflect the relative strength of the Alberta and Saskatchewan econo- mies. [...] Indeed, Alberta, which accounts for 11% of the national population, managed to attract over 100,000 in-migrants (almost one-third of total migrants) from other provinces in 2012 – a higher reading than compared to the hey-day of the oil boom in 2005-06. [...] The unemployment rates in these provinces are compared to the rest of Canada during the recovery period. [...] The unemployment rate in B. C. had been rising the interprovincial blow in migration in Manitoba has been steadily relative to the rest of Canada – albeit from record the steady annual inflows of international immigrants over lows – since 2007, surpassing the national average in 2011.