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National Post
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- National Post
FIRST READING: Canadian talent (and money) is fleeing to the U.S.
First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post's own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Article content TOP STORY Article content Article content This month, one of the world's most well-known Canadian residents finalized his plans to leave Canada for good. Article content The term 'famous Canadian' almost always describes someone who no longer lives in the country of their birth. Neil Young, Justin Bieber, Malcolm Gladwell, Ryan Reynolds, Alanis Morrissette; all of them live full-time in the United States, and have done so for years. Article content Article content Until recently, Jordan Peterson was an exception. He could sell out stadiums in Europe and pen best-selling books in the United States, but his home base remained Toronto, where he retained his position as a psychology professor at the University of Toronto. Article content Article content But with Peterson officially putting his Toronto home up for sale as part of a permanent move to Arizona, he's effectively severing his last physical tie to Canada in what he's described as a ' painful parting.' Article content And news of the Peterson sale happened to break in the same week that another prominent figure announced that he was reluctantly abandoning his Canadian address. In a widely circulated op-ed for the National Post, Vancouver Jewish community leader Michael Sachs said he could no longer justify raising his family in Canada when the U.S. was an option. 'I have received multiple death threats over the last few years for advocating for my community. For my family, the luxury of patience has run out and our confidence in Canada's political leadership is gone,' he wrote. Article content Article content Both Peterson and Sachs have their own political reasons for leaving, but they're part of an accelerating trend. Canada has always struggled to stop capital and top talent from fleeing abroad, but what was once a steady trickle of people leaving may be ramping up. Article content In a Thursday social media post, the chief operating officer for Shopify, Kaz Nejatian, said he had multiple Jewish friends tell him their plans to leave. Article content 'They say they no longer feel safe sending their kids to school here,' he said. Article content That same day, the U.S.-based National Review profiled several Jewish Canadians who were either mulling a move to the U.S. for safety reasons, or had already done so. They included veteran Conservative political organizer Georgann Burke, who cited noticeable increases in both antisemitic hatred and anti-American hatred. 'I have received a series of really nasty emails. One was from someone who actually threatened to kill me,' she said. Article content Another, Toronto real estate developer Avi Glina, characterized Canada's steep rise in Jewish hate not as something distinct from the country's various economic ills, but a symptom of it. Article content 'Antisemitism is a symptom of a broken economy and nation state,' he said. Article content As far back as 2022, U.S. data was showing a noticeable spike in Canadians moving across the border. When that year's incoming Canadians were compared against outgoing Canadians, the U.S. Census Bureau determined that they had taken in a net 42,825 newcomers. It was the fastest growth in Canadian immigration they'd seen since 2013. Article content And Canada's own figures are also tracking a spike in departures. Article content In the first three months of 2025, Statistics Canada counted 27,086 emigrants permanently leaving the country. That's up from 25,394 in the first quarter of 2022. Article content Emigration figures include both citizens and permanent residents, so some of those departures may include recent immigrants who are ditching Canada for new horizons. Article content But regardless, it represents a near-unprecedented rate of established Canadians deciding they don't want to live here anymore. Article content 'Aside from a spike in 2017, this is the highest sustained outflow since the 1960s,' reads an analysis of the emigration figures by Better Dwelling. Article content Article content Over the 12 months preceding the April federal election, a total of 106,900 were added to the Canadian emigration rolls. On whatever day that Peterson finally left Canada for good, he would have been among about 300 Canadians doing the same. Article content Canada's chief weakness in retaining talent and money is economic. Article content In fields ranging from engineering to law, the average Canadian professional can not only make more money in the United States, but face dramatically lower housing prices and cost of living expenses. Article content The disparity has long been most obvious in the tech sector. In some years, the University of Waterloo's software engineering department has immediately lost up to 85 per cent of its graduates to jobs in the United States. Article content As one Canadian engineering student put it in a lengthy 2022 blog post about the Canadian brain drain, ''Cali or bust' and 'US or bust' are common terms I heard throughout my undergrad in engineering.' Article content The two countries used to be much more comparable for housing and wages, but the last 10 years have seen U.S. per-capita GDP surge ahead of Canada, while Canadian housing unaffordability has simultaneously surged ahead of the U.S. Article content Article content And if Canada's economy is scaring away people, it's also scaring away money. A Thursday update by Statistics Canada confirmed that both Canadian and foreign investors have been feverishly divesting from the Canadian economy, with $83.9 billion having been divested from Canadian securities in just the last four months. Article content According to Statistics Canada, a lot of that divested money was being poured into the United States instead. Article content One of the most illuminating polls from Canada's current trade war with the United States was a January survey finding that four in 10 Canadian young people would vote to dissolve their country if it meant that they could receive U.S. citizenship. Article content The question was whether respondents would vote for Canada to become a part of the United States provided the U.S. 'offered all Canadians full U.S. citizenship and a full conversion of the Canadian dollar and all personal financial assets into US dollars.' Article content The cohort that liked the idea more than anyone else was Canadians under 34; 43 per cent said they would trade their country's sovereignty for such a deal.
Bloomberg
10-07-2025
- Bloomberg
US Sees 33% Drop in Car Trips by Canadians as Summer Travel Starts
Canadians are committed to ditching US travel, taking the fewest number of car trips there in the year's first half since at least 2017, excluding the pandemic. Over the past six months, Canadians returned from just 8 million trips, well below the 11 million entries during the same period in 2024, according to Statistics Canada data released Thursday. In June, Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the US plunged 33.1% from a year ago.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Sexual orientation question to appear on census for first time in 2026
Canadian residents will be asked about their sexual orientation in next year's national census, CBC News has learned. While Statistics Canada has asked about sexual orientation in past surveys, next year will mark the first time the question will appear on the long-form census questionnaire that will go out to 25 per cent of Canadian residents in May 2026. The questions will not be included in the short-form census that goes out to 75 per cent of Canadian residents. The long-form census will also feature questions about homelessness and health problems for the first time. The questions for the census, which is conducted every five years, were approved by Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet on June 13. Most of them touch on the usual census topics such as the ethnic background of respondents and their families, education, housing, employment, citizenship and languages spoken. While Canadians are required by law to fill out the questionnaires, their answers remain confidential. They're used to produce statistics about Canada's population and often help inform where services are needed across the country. The question will provide a more complete picture of where people of different sexual orientations live across the country, and their socioeconomic backgrounds. The questions to be asked in next year's census include a respondent's sex at birth, with the option to select male or female. Respondents are also asked to provide their gender, with the option to choose man (or boy), woman (or girl) or write in their own answer. The census questionnaire also provides a definition of gender to guide respondents. "Gender refers to an individual's personal and social identity as a man (or boy), a woman (or a girl) or a person who is not exclusively a man (or a boy) or a woman (or a girl) for example, non-binary, agender, gender fluid, queer or two-spirit." Question 36, which is only to be asked for those aged 15 years and older, asks directly about sexual orientation, explaining that the information is being collected "to inform programs that promote equal opportunity for everyone living in Canada to share in its social, cultural and economic life." Respondents can choose between "heterosexual (i.e. straight), lesbian or gay, bisexual or pansexual" or write in their own answer. Sébastien Larochelle-Côté, director general of socioeconomic statistics and social data integration for Statistics Canada, says the question of sexual orientation was identified as a data gap about Canada's population in consultations leading up to the census questionnaire. "That's the primary reason why we are including sexual orientation in the census of population," Larochelle-Côté said. He said this will also allow the census data to be paired with information about transgender and non-binary people in Canada that the agency has been collecting through separate surveys. "We'll be able to get insights about the 2SLGBTQ+ population as a whole. And so that, in our view, is going to be providing very, very insightful information." Larochelle-Côté said the answers will also help inform government decision-making. "We know that sexual orientation has been identified as a motive of discrimination by the Canadian Human Rights Act," he said. "We know as well that there is a federal task force that recommended the 2SLGBTQ+ population as an equity group … we wanted to move with the times." Larochelle-Côté said other countries like the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand also ask about sexual orientation in their censuses, but he said it has not yet been asked in the United States, which conducts a census every 10 years. Information about homelessness in Canada is another information gap that Statistics Canada is hoping to fill. It also comes as the federal government has vowed to increase home-building across the country. Larochelle-Côté said Statistics Canada won't be able to reach those who are currently homeless on May 12, 2026, because the questionnaire is sent to homes and collective dwellings. But it will provide more information about people who have been homeless. The first question will ask whether a respondent "stayed in a shelter, on the street or in parks, in a makeshift shelter, in a vehicle or in an abandoned building" over the previous 12 months. The second will ask whether a respondent has lived temporarily with friends, family or others over the previous 12 months because they had nowhere else to live. Larochelle-Côté said the answers to those questions will shed light on where people are experiencing homelessness and can be cross-referenced with the socioeconomic characteristics of a respondent from the answers to other census questions. "We'll be able to have a better understanding of who is most at risk of experiencing homelessness," he said. Next year's census will also include new questions about the health of respondents, including whether the respondent has difficulty seeing, hearing, walking using stairs or using their hands or fingers. It will ask respondents if they have difficulty learning, remembering or concentrating, whether they have emotional, psychological or mental health conditions as well as whether they have other health problems or long-term conditions that have lasted or are expected to last for six months or more. The census will include a general question about how the respondent rates their health. This will help "better predict the demand for health-care services across the country, down to the lowest level of geography possible," said Larochelle-Côté. While similar questions have been asked in other surveys, Larochelle-Côté said this will be the first time they are asked in the Canadian census. Details of next year's census will be made public on July 4.
CBC
25-06-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Sexual orientation question to appear on census for first time in 2026
Canadian residents will be asked about their sexual orientation in next year's national census, CBC News has learned. While Statistics Canada has asked about sexual orientation in past surveys, next year will mark the first time the question will appear on the long-form census questionnaire that will go out to 25 per cent of Canadian residents in May 2026. The questions will not be included in the short-form census that goes out to 75 per cent of Canadian residents. The long-form census will also feature questions about homelessness and health problems for the first time. The questions for the census, which is conducted every five years, were approved by Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet on June 13. Most of them touch on the usual census topics such as the ethnic background of respondents and their families, education, housing, employment, citizenship and languages spoken. While Canadians are required by law to fill out the questionnaires, their answers remain confidential. They're used to produce statistics about Canada's population and often help inform where services are needed across the country. The question will provide a more complete picture of where people of different sexual orientations live across the country, and their socioeconomic backgrounds. The questions to be asked in next year's census include a respondent's sex at birth, with the option to select male or female. Respondents are also asked to provide their gender, with the option to choose man (or boy), woman (or girl) or write in their own answer. The census questionnaire also provides a definition of gender to guide respondents. "Gender refers to an individual's personal and social identity as a man (or boy), a woman (or a girl) or a person who is not exclusively a man (or a boy) or a woman (or a girl) for example, non-binary, agender, gender fluid, queer or two-spirit." Gap in data identified Question 36, which is only to be asked for those aged 15 years and older, asks directly about sexual orientation, explaining that the information is being collected "to inform programs that promote equal opportunity for everyone living in Canada to share in its social, cultural and economic life." Respondents can choose between "heterosexual (i.e. straight), lesbian or gay, bisexual or pansexual" or write in their own answer. Sébastien Larochelle-Côté, director general of socioeconomic statistics and social data integration for Statistics Canada, says the question of sexual orientation was identified as a data gap about Canada's population in consultations leading up to the census questionnaire. "That's the primary reason why we are including sexual orientation in the census of population," Larochelle-Côté said. He said this will also allow the census data to be paired with information about transgender and non-binary people in Canada that the agency has been collecting through separate surveys. "We'll be able to get insights about the 2SLGBTQ+ population as a whole. And so that, in our view, is going to be providing very, very insightful information." Larochelle-Côté said the answers will also help inform government decision-making. "We know that sexual orientation has been identified as a motive of discrimination by the Canadian Human Rights Act," he said. "We know as well that there is a federal task force that recommended the 2SLGBTQ+ population as an equity group … we wanted to move with the times." Larochelle-Côté said other countries like the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand also ask about sexual orientation in their censuses, but he said it has not yet been asked in the United States, which conducts a census every 10 years. Health, homelessness questions added Information about homelessness in Canada is another information gap that Statistics Canada is hoping to fill. It also comes as the federal government has vowed to increase home-building across the country. Larochelle-Côté said Statistics Canada won't be able to reach those who are currently homeless on May 12, 2026, because the questionnaire is sent to homes and collective dwellings. But it will provide more information about people who have been homeless. The first question will ask whether a respondent "stayed in a shelter, on the street or in parks, in a makeshift shelter, in a vehicle or in an abandoned building" over the previous 12 months. The second will ask whether a respondent has lived temporarily with friends, family or others over the previous 12 months because they had nowhere else to live. Larochelle-Côté said the answers to those questions will shed light on where people are experiencing homelessness and can be cross-referenced with the socioeconomic characteristics of a respondent from the answers to other census questions. "We'll be able to have a better understanding of who is most at risk of experiencing homelessness," he said. Next year's census will also include new questions about the health of respondents, including whether the respondent has difficulty seeing, hearing, walking using stairs or using their hands or fingers. It will ask respondents if they have difficulty learning, remembering or concentrating, whether they have emotional, psychological or mental health conditions as well as whether they have other health problems or long-term conditions that have lasted or are expected to last for six months or more. The census will include a general question about how the respondent rates their health. This will help "better predict the demand for health-care services across the country, down to the lowest level of geography possible," said Larochelle-Côté. While similar questions have been asked in other surveys, Larochelle-Côté said this will be the first time they are asked in the Canadian census. Details of next year's census will be made public on July 4.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Number of Americans travelling to Canada continues to decline
While Canadians continue to skip travel to the United States, Americans are also visiting their northern neighbours less as trade tensions between the countries persist. For the third month in a row, trips to Canada by U.S. residents declined in April to 1.3 million trips, down 8.9 per cent year-over-year from 2024, monthly travel data from Statistics Canada show. Arrivals to Canada by automobile by U.S. residents were down 8.4 per cent year-over-year in April, to 937,400, more than half of which were same-day trips. Air arrivals, on the other hand, were down four per cent from a year ago. There was also a decline in the number of U.S. residents who disembarked from cruise ships in Canada that month, down 31.5 per cent to 24,800 compared with the same month in 2024. Trips by U.S. residents to Canada in April, despite dropping nearly nine per cent, still represent 76.7 per cent of all non-resident trips to Canada. Return trips by air from the United States by Canadian residents continued to decrease, dropping by 14 per cent compared to April 2024. Return trips from overseas countries by Canadian residents travelling by air increased 9.1 per cent in April compared with one year earlier. By automobile, the number of return trips by Canadian residents from the U.S. was down by 35.4 per cent to 1.4 million. Overall, Canadian residents returned from 2.3 million trips to the United States in April, a 29.1 per cent drop from 2024. Trips to the U.S. accounted for 63.9 per cent of all trips taken by Canadian residents that month. Trips by non-U.S. overseas residents to Canada also slightly edged down by 0.6 per cent in April, slipping to 408,200 arrivals, the majority of which were by air. This marks the seventh consecutive month of year-over-year declines. Europe is Canada's largest source of visitors from overseas, followed by Asia and the Americas, according to StatCan. The number of arrivals from Europe was up 3.7 per cent, while arrivals from the Americas (excluding the United States) was up 14.4 per cent. Arrivals from Asia were down 12.6 per cent, contributing the most to the decline in overseas visitors in April. Air passenger travel to U.S. continues to weaken despite higher overall traffic: Statistics Canada Border fears lead Canadian firms to advise burner phones, clean computers, travel bans Fewer Canadian residents returned from trips abroad that month, with 3.6 million return trips, marking the fourth consecutive month of declines, down by 18.9 per cent compared to the previous year. • Email: dpaglinawan@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
