The city of Montreal has witnessed a 5.3 per cent increase in its population over just a year thanks to the post-pandemic resumption of immigration.<\/p>\n
These estimates have been proposed by the Institut de la statistique du Quebec (ISQ), which is the governmental statistics agency for the French-Canadian province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The city \u2013 with a 100,000 boost in its population \u2013 grown more than any other major city or province, including its suburbs.\u00a0\u00a0The Quebec government\u2019s population decree for 2024 put Montreal\u2019s population at 1,895,211.<\/p>\n This data includes all people on the territory except tourists, according to CityNews Everywhere.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n It is not just Montreal, however; Quebec municipalities with more than 100,000 people have seen their population rise by an average 3.5 per cent, and those with populations between 10,000 and 100,000 have seen their numbers boost by 0.7 per cent between 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n Read More<\/b><\/p>\n Manitoba PNP Draw: Province Issues 423 Canada Immigration Invitations<\/a> As per ISQ experts, downtown Montreal (the Ville-Marie borough) had a 14 per cent rise in population between 2022 and 2023. While it had 117,823 inhabitants on July 1, 2023, it had only boasted 103,017 a year before.<\/p>\n C\u00f4te-des-Neiges-NDG and Montreal North would also have seen significant growth.<\/p>\n Just in November of last year, Quebec had tabled documents in its legislature that laid out plans for the admission of more than 60,000 immigrants to the French-Canadian province in 2024.<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters in Quebec City then, Legault had said that he did not want to raise the annual immigration rate as that would threaten the French language in the province.<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0We chose \u2026 to keep the thresholds, so the total number of permanent immigrants accepted per year at 50,000,\u00a0\u00bb he had said, as per CTV News. \u00ab\u00a0We had evaluated the possibility of increasing it to 60,000, but it’s important for us, to stop, to reverse the decline of French.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n Watch Video<\/b><\/p>\n
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