Tag Archive for: Brain drain
42% of Anglos considered leaving Quebec post PQ win: poll
/in Press Coverage/by QCGN Communications
Que.’s anglophones battling ‘brain drain’: Group
/in Press Coverage/by QCGN CommunicationsCanwest News Service, Mike De Souza
OTTAWA – English communities, institutions and services in Quebec have weakened over the past four decades, and are in need federal support to stop a brain drain, an umbrella group for the province’s anglophones said in Parliament on Monday.
”English-speaking Quebec faces the particular challenge of being a minority within a minority which, let’s face it, is not always recognized as such by key decision-makers and opinion-leaders,” said Robert Donnelly, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network at a Senate hearing on Canada’s official languages. ”The answer is not to divide the existing pie differently because the francophone minority is also in need of fair funding. We just need a bigger pie.” Read more…
Brain drain, brain gain
/in Press Coverage/by QCGN CommunicationsThe Gazette, David Johnston
Although the anglophone community of Quebec has started to grow again after four decades of decline, concerns about a brain drain continue.
The most recent study that looked at the education levels of “leavers” and “stayers” found a clear correlation between years of schooling and the likelihood of leaving Quebec.
The study, of 2001 census data, by researchers William Floch of the federal Heritage Department and sociologist Joanne Pocock of Carleton University, found two in every three Quebec-born anglos with master’s degrees were no longer living in Quebec in 2001. For Ph.D.s, the brain drain was equal to three in every four. Read more…
Economic downturn might keep young anglos here
/in Press Coverage/by QCGN CommunicationsThe Gazette, David Johnston
Although political and linguistic uncertainty is receding in Quebec, a new era of economic uncertainty is beginning to take hold. The unfolding new economic downturn has brought a new dimension to the decision of young anglophones to stay or leave Quebec.
“This time around, the grass won’t be any greener on the other side of the hill,” says Carlos Leitao, chief economist at Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal. Jobs likely won’t be any easier to find in the rest of Canada, he says. In fact, he says employment prospects could turn out to be better here. Read more…
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