The Institut de la statistique du Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0(ISQ) is projecting\u00a0a decline in Montreal\u2019s population in the coming years.<\/p>\n
According to its most recent scenario \u00a0demographic bulletin published at the end of July, the Island\u00a0will lose 201,000 residents by 2030 \u2014 a\u00a0decline of almost 10 per cent of its population in five years. The data was first unveiled in a La Presse report.<\/p>\n
Currently, nearly 2.2 million people live on the island of Montreal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEconomy is going down, everything\u2019s going, everything\u2019s getting expensive,\u201d said one Montrealer. \u201cInflation is increasing why are people gonna have babies.<\/p>\n
Some Montrealers say this projection is bad news for the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the economy I guess it wouldn\u2019t be too much of a good thing, if demand decreases for local producers as well and like store owners, I don\u2019t think that would have the best impact,\u201d said one resident.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s bad for the economy, everything,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
The ISQ\u00a0also projects that the\u00a0departure of Montrealers to the suburbs will also continue\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can understand some people who are who wants more quiet life,\u201d said one Montrealer, as a car honked on by on a downtown street. \u201cLike now, for example, who just wants to live in the suburbs, so they can just enjoy a peaceful peaceful life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The projections are revised\u00a0yearly by the ISQ and it\u00a0takes into account the Legault government\u2019s new immigration targets.<\/p>\n
While 64,250 permanent immigrants are expected to arrive this year, the ISQ\u2019s \u201creference scenario\u201d has been reduced to 45,000 starting next year due to increased \u201cregionalization\u201d of newcomers who will settle throughout Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Institut de la statistique du Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0(ISQ) is projecting\u00a0a decline in Montreal\u2019s population in the coming years. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-142592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}