La dynamique démolinguistique du Québec et de ses régions

The author’s objective is: to describe the demolinguistic evolution of Quebec, to analyse the demographic and linguistic behaviour of the various language groups and, on the basis of this behaviour, to attempt to identify the main characteristics of what the future holds in store for Quebec. Focusing on 1976-1981, essentially because of the decline in fertility that had begun well before other groups in the province, the English-speaking community in Quebec experienced natural growth (excess of births over deaths) close to "zero growth." Under such conditions, the demographic future of English Quebec necessarily depended on its migratory behaviour. Unfortunately, the problem was reinforced by an equally structural socio-cultural context, which means that Quebec was hardly part of the migratory space of English-speaking people from the rest of Canada, whereas the rest of Canada was part of the migratory space of English-speaking people in Quebec. The author notes that the result was that, year in, year out, Quebec's Anglophone group lost (in net terms, i.e. taking into account the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants) around 1% of its workforce (i.e. a loss of some 7,000 to 8,000 each year) through interprovincial migration.

La démographie québécoise. Enjeux du XXe siècle

Montréal

Les Presses de l'Université Montréal

2003

264-299

fr

978-2-7606-1885-5