“Canada's cost of living crisis, housing affordability issues and overall economic uncertainty continue to push some residents to consider a new life abroad.”
This crisis is causing people to spend and travel less.
BTW, your "source" is an AI generated article by a local blog. It's not news.
Actually, it is AI generated + Human edited (with links to StatsCan for the numbers), and is very interesting "news-to-me" wrt the breakdowns by province.
Anyways, the person I responded to used a quote from the article to support their point, but that quote isn't sourced, because, well, it's clearly opinion masquerading as fact. And since there's no author, no-one has to answer for it, or support their assertion with logic, facts and reasoning.
Be careful what you wish for.
[0] https://www.narcity.com/moving-provinces-canada-ontario-albe... https://www.narcity.com/canadian-emigration-people-leaving-c... https://www.narcity.com/canadians-leaving-canada-emigration-... https://www.narcity.com/canada-immigration-emigration-2024
There are more, but I think you get the idea.
Added: The entire premise... that there is a sudden wave of inter-provincial migration is nonsense. As is the claim that there is a wave of emigration.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2022017...
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=171000...