More Than 120,000 People Left Canada Last Year, Marking an Emigration Peak

More Than 120,000 People Left Canada Last Year, Marking an Emigration Peak
People are seen at Pearson International Airport in Toronto in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
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More than 120,000 Canadians and permanent residents moved out of the country between September of last year and September of this year, according to data from Statistics Canada.

Similar peaks in the departure of citizens and permanent residents have only been seen twice in Canadian history, in 1968 amid a housing bubble in Canada that saw professionals fleeing to the United States, and in 2017 during a regional real estate bubble that mainly occurred in three provinces.