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The study found the number of Canadians living abroad relative to the national population was five times higher than the U.S.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

A new report lends insight into Canadians who leave the country, estimated to number around four million in 2016, or about 11 per cent of the population according to Statistics Canada.

More than one in ten people in a single year?

I don't think I know a single person in all my life who moved out of Canada.

Are they all movie stars or millionaires?

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

I have met a large number of Canadians who have left the country, and they were not super well off. But no where near 1 in 10

They were mostly people who became citizens, then returned to the place they were born for one reason or another.

Sometimes it's realizing that the grass isn't greener, sometimes it someone "back home" gets sick, sometimes it a relationship they have in Canada goes away for one reason or another.

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