The population of Quebec is about seven and a half million people, accounting for 22% of Canada's population. 125,095 people left Quebec for another province between 1996 and 2001, 64% went to Ontario. 11% went to B.C and 9% to Alberta. That last figure experienced an increase in 2005-2006 with the Alberta oil boom. 62,4320 people moved into Quebec from other provinces during the same 5 year period. 59% of those people came from Ontario but a fairly high number also came from British Columbia with 12% and New Brunswick with 10%.
Twenty percent of Montreal's population are immigrants. Quebec is witnessing a sudden growth of Middle Eastern immigrants, While Montreal has always been heavily Jewish and Italian other nationalities are being introduced. This up turn is causing issues that were never there before. Issues such as the controversy over women covering their heads and faces with religious garments such as the hijab.
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