Richard Kurland: Vancouver Immigration

Access To Information Request Dept: The short story is that economically active immigrants -- those with money to invest or, to a lesser extent, with skills that are in demand -- are more inclined to move to B.C. from another province than they are to leave here for perceived greener pastures farther east. And family class immigrants -- those who are most likely to provoke concerns about straining our government services such as health and education -- leave B.C. for other parts of Canada in slightly greater numbers than similar migrants move in from other provinces, according to Vancouver Sun. The report found the retention rate for all 1.6 million immigrants who arrived between 2000 and 2006 varied from 79 to 91 per cent in B.C., Alberta, Ontario and Quebec, but was just 43 to 68 per cent in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Maritimes. When the destinations of those who left their province of arrival were tracked through tax records, Alberta and B.C. were the only two provinces to register a positive net inflow and a lot of new immigrants to Canada don't stay very long in the province where they land. And when you add up the economic impact of the comings and goings of these immigrants once they've arrived, B.C. seems to be gaining quite a bit more than it loses. I gleaned these insights from a Canadian Citizenship and Immigration paper that was provided to me by Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland. For reasons I'm hard-pressed to understand, Kurland had to ferret out this information with an Access to Information request, though it's now posted on the Internet. As reported in the news.
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