Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta did the best job of any of the provinces of hanging onto their immigrants who arrived in Canada from 2012 to 2016, a Statistics Canada report reveals.<\/p>\n
In its Provincial Variation In The Retention Rates Of Immigrants, 2022<\/i> report, released on Feb. 14 this year, the statistical and demographic services agency says immigrants who settled in those provinces loved staying there enough to remain there for at least five years.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmong immigrants admitted from 2012 to 2016, those who intended to reside in Ontario, British Columbia or Alberta were the most likely to stay in those provinces five years after their admission,\u201d notes Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpecifically, among immigrants admitted in 2016, the five-year retention rate was 93.1 per cent in Ontario, 87.3 per cent in British Columbia and 84.5 per cent in Alberta.<\/p>\n
Quebec\u2019s five-year retention rate was 81 per cent among the 2016 admission cohort.<\/p>\n
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Manitoba PNP Draw: Province Issues 282 Canada Immigration Invitations<\/a><\/span> The Atlantic Canadian provinces, which have historically had some of the worst immigrant retention rates in the country, saw a marked improvement in their one-year retention rate with the launch of the Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP), which was then a pilot project, in 2017.<\/p>\n The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, though, hurt the Atlantic provinces\u2019 retention rates even as the public health and travel restrictions greatly reduced the number of new permanent residents coming to Canada in the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n \u201cOverall, the one-year retention rate for skilled immigrants in the Atlantic provinces for the 2020 admission cohort was higher than the rate prior to the launch of the AIP,\u201d notes Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n \u201cNova Scotia experienced the highest increase to the retention rate of skilled immigrants, up 42.4 percentage points from 21.5 per cent for the 2016 cohort to 63.9 per cent for that of 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n New Brunswick saw an improvement in its one-year retention rate from 50 to 65.8 per cent for immigrants who arrived in New Brunswick in 2020 compared to those who arrived four years earlier.<\/p>\n Watch Video<\/b><\/p>\n
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