Saskatchewan’s population growth slowed significantly in the second quarter of this year as the effects of Ottawa’s crackdown on immigration numbers began to take hold.
The latest quarterly estimate of population numbers across the country came out yesterday.
Canada’s population grew under one-percent in the past year while Saskatchewan saw an increase of 1.5-percent. Although that was higher than the national average by a wide margin, the pace of that growth is sharply lower than what we were seeing at this time a year ago.
That is primarily because of lower immigration numbers – people to the province from another country. It fell about 50-percent. However, Saskatchewan’s inter-provincial migration – the flow of people to and from other parts of Canada remained almost static.
This has been a winning category for us for most of the year. The flow between here and Ontario was basically even while we got 100 more from Alberta than we sent them. The numbers between BC and Saskatchewan were a wash while we lost about a net of roughly 40 people to Manitoba.
