Abstract
Since the social-political changes of the Quiet Revolution during the 1960s, Québec has experienced much lower birth rates. Until recently, the government of Québec had hoped to compensate for this low fertility by increasing immigration. In 1991, for example, Québec began to administer its own immigration program seeking to admit immigrants who “adapt well to living there.” This article aims to determine the extent to which Québec governments have been able to control international migration into the region since the 1991 Canada-Québec Accord. Utilizing a logged-dependent-variable OLS panel model of international migration into Québec from 1991 to 2016, this essay evaluates the impact of independent factors that the government can influence as well as many source- and destination-country control variables. Our regression results suggest that Liberal Party dominance of the Québec government and Québec’s 1996 change in migration policy both boosted migration. Effective migration also rose with the percentage of a source region that is Francophone, a proportion the government may presumably influence via admissions policies. We conclude that Québec authorities play a significant role in shaping who actually immigrates.
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