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Figure 29.1 Québec’s proportion of Canada’s immigrants and of Canada’s population,
1970–2000
Adapted from: Duchesne, Louis. 2005. La situation démographique au Québec. Bilan 2005. Québec: Institut
de la statistique du Québec.
also equivocal, but that is due to policy attempting to ‘regionalize’ its immigration,
priorities which oscillate between labour i.e., to encourage immigrants to settle outside
market, demographic, and humanitarian of Montréal (Vatz Laaroussi, 2005). Regional
goals. ‘Diversity management’in Québec has municipalities have played an active role in
as a result taken a unique turn, with, for this process, often seeking immigration for
instance, the development of an ‘intercultural’ demographic, economic and cultural reasons
perspective, different from Canadian multi- (Guilbert, 2005). While Montréal has experi-
culturalism, and which places a much enced large-scale migration for much of its
stronger emphasis on the importance of a history, these other cities have not, prompting
common language and shared values (Gagnon, them to organize a range of programs to attract
2000; Symons, 2002; see also Pietrantonio’s and retain immigrants (Guilbert, 2005).
contribution to this chapter). Not unlike other This immigration policy dualism raises a
immigration countries, Québec has also been number of analytical questions, but two head

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Figure 29.2 Proportion of foreign-born, top 10 countries and Québec, 2000
Adapted from: Trends in International Migration, OECD, 2002; Statistics Canada, 2001 Census. (Note: Closest
year when 2000 not available; Luxembourg was omitted).