Wed Mar 30, 2022 – 9:53 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Statistics show that as pandemic measures continued to tighten as the year progressed, more and more Canadians decided to pack up and leave the country.
According to Statistics Canada, an estimated 55,935 Canadians left the country permanently during 2021, a rise of over 50 percent when compared with the five-year median trend before 2020. Notably, a whopping 215 percent increase in emigration was noticed in the fourth quarter of 2021, shortly after Trudeau’s Liberal federal government mandated that all those traveling within Canada via plane, train, or boat were going to be required to be “fully vaccinated” against the highly survivable coronavirus.
In an analysis of the data by the Truth North Centre, other factors such as the rising cost of home prices and 30-year high inflation were also attributed as likely factors that led to the mass exodus.
Not only did many Canadians flee the nation, the most populous province of Ontario also saw the highest number of people departt for other Canadians provinces than any other year in the last 40 years.
According to Scotiabank senior economist Marc Desormeaux, “Pandemic restriction severity, housing affordability, and
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