In my own research I haven't looked at remittances, but I would say that the logic you present would be a strong hypothesis that I think would be shown to be correct if we were able to look at that. Part of the difficulty in looking at remittances is largely how we construct our data. We largely look at people once they're here, rather than looking at flows with their broader family abroad as well as their flows in and out of Canada. I can only speculate, but I suspect you'd probably find that would be true.
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