This just in, from Urban Futures:
Release of the provincial quarterly migration data.
We wrote in the spring about a surprising decline in the level of international migration to BC at the time. In the most recent quarterly data (July to September, 2011) BC posted another surprising decline: net interprovincial migration was negative, with more BC residents moving to other regions of Canada than from them to BC.
While we have seen this situation before, this quarterly loss (albeit a relatively few 723 people) follows losses in both Q1 and Q2 of 2011, representing the first time since 2003 that the province has seen three consecutive quarters of net interprovincial out-migration. We have posted the most recent numbers and some comments about what it could mean for BC here.
