Usually, net international migration in the Atlantic provinces is positive, meaning that these regions receive more immigrants than there are emigrants leaving these regions. The net interprovincial migration rate is usually negative for these regions, meaning that there are more people leaving these areas for other places in Canada than people coming from other regions to establish themselves in the Atlantic region. Those are trends that we've seen for quite a while. For quite a few years it's been pretty stable.
When you want to have a look at the most recent trends, I would say the best data source is the population estimates released on an annual basis. I would suggest to focus, really, on the information that we release every September, because it includes the final data from IRCC and we use tax files to estimate internal migration, so you have something pretty solid and robust in terms of data quality.
These are the trends you want to look at to monitor or track down the changes in those patterns. Overall I would say these patterns have been fairly stable for the last 30 years.