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Highlights

1. In the third quarter, Canada’s population passed the 33-million mark for the first time; on October 1, 2007, the estimated figure stood at 33,091,200.
2. Canada welcomed 71,600 immigrants during July, August and September. Since 1971, that number has been surpassed only once in a third quarter (75,900 in 2005).
3. Ontario’s attraction for newcomers is declining. Over the last quarter, 46.5% of new arrivals settled in Ontario— the lowest percentage since the second quarter of 1984 (46.0%).
4. A trend reversal in interprovincial migration was observed over the quarter. For the first time since the fourth quarter of 1994, Alberta posted negative net interprovincial migration (-3,300).
5. Thanks to this change, all provinces other than Alberta recorded positive demographic growth higher than that for the same period of 2006.
6. For the first time in several decades, Saskatchewan had the highest demographic growth among all Canadian jurisdictions, with the province’s population topping the one-million mark for the first time since July 1, 2001.
7. With gains of 1,200, Newfoundland and Labrador ended a series of 15 consecutive quarters of demographic losses, and Manitoba experienced its highest demographic increase since the second quarter of 1983.