BC typically attracts 17% of Canada’s new immigrants and of this provincial figure, 78% go to Metro Vancouver.
Rennie anticipates a new record of over 70,000 permanent residents will go to BC in 2022, with a new record of 55,000 calling Metro Vancouver their new home — equivalent to the population of the city of Port Coquitlam.
While immigration will accelerate, there will be a slight reversal of the strong pandemic-time domestic migration flows into Metro Vancouver from other parts of Canada.
Based on the last reference period for data, from the second quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2021, BC attracted over 48,000 net interprovincial migrants.