We project the population at the provincial level for the next 25 years. That's what Statistics Canada has done and is doing on a regular basis. The concern—and I'm coming back to more deaths than births—is about natural increase. Natural increase, according to all scenarios done in our projection, are showing that this should be getting worse in the coming years. The deficit of births to deaths should increase. That's regardless of how many immigrants there are in the Atlantic region and regardless of internal migration patterns. It's all going down. That's something you need to consider in this committee. This is a strong trend.
On October 17th, 2017. See this statement in context.