Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm more concerned about the fact that it's the number of deaths that is going up in the Atlantic region. It will go up as well in other regions of Canada, but fertility levels are sufficient in some other places to maintain this natural increase at a positive rate. In the Atlant

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll follow up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can answer that from my perspective as a demographer. Immigrants in Canada settle mostly in large urban areas of the country. Previous studies have shown that part of the reason they are settling more into these large urban areas is the presence of an already existing community

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't be able to comment on the tourism industry. I know very—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, I wouldn't be able to comment on a specific industry in the Atlantic provinces at this point.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  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

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can only confirm as a demographer that in the Atlantic region we do see a greater proportion of young adults leaving these rural areas than we see elsewhere. One of my slides compares the rural areas of the Atlantic region to those located in the prairie provinces, and you obvi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will follow up, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a good question, actually. I haven't really looked at numbers for investments and goods. I'm more familiar, I would say, with numbers related to the population. One thing I could say is that obviously the population in Newfoundland and Labrador, like the populations of Can

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly. I will follow up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  — in Atlantic Canada as you generate births in Alberta. These patterns are making a huge difference in terms of the demographics of the different regions of Canada, especially Alberta, leading to these growing differences. I think that's one message I want this committee to reme

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As a demographer, I can say that when we see shifts in demographics, especially related to migration, very often it's because we've observed shifts in the economy of these regions before that. There's always a lag between the two, but usually we can see links between those two ph

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me at this point.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't be able to comment on this as a demographer. We do have statistics on education. I could find you the information.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is not at all the case in the territories. The fertility rate is much higher than elsewhere. In Nunavut, for example, it is almost three children per woman, so the natural increase remains very strong in the territories, actually. In the Atlantic provinces, it's happening fo