Maybe, but the articles main thesis, as expressed by it's title is about reverse immigration, not emigration:

> The rate of immigrants leaving Canada hit a two-decade high in 2019,

I feel the article just mixed in all the numbers they could for the maximum possible interpretations by readers. They could have focused on the thesis in the title, or they could have focused on the emigration, but by choosing to mix everything up all you get are a bunch of readers who come away from the same article with different salient points.

Its about immigrants specifically leaving, which is arguably a good indicator of the desirability of living in the country.

This is a place where the terminology breaks down, since technically even native-born Canadians who leave for another country are "immigrating" to that country.

I assume you mean something like: "This is about people who immigrated to Canada emigrating/immigrating a second time."

Emigrants leaving a country had been living there, perhaps for their whole life, and have decided to leave and go elsewhere.

Just like how I am not giving an opinion on the immigration/emigration policies, I'm merely offering (what I think is[2]) a correction to your post.

[1] Maybe his "correction" is wrong, but he is still only talking about stats and not policies.

[2] I could be wrong too, about my interpretation about GPs correction, but that still leaves this post void of opinions on immigration/emigration policies.

Personally, just my opinion, among the 7+ countries that I have stayed in, Canada ranks the top for almost everything. It has its challenges and rough spots and problems and issues but is much more manageable compared to other countries.

No guns, universal medicare, friendly(iest) people, free school, English speaking, amazing landscape: Next to impossible to find a challenger for me.

Quebec has 20%+ of its population with no family doctor while Ontario has 10%

Here in metro Vancouver it is recently very easy to get a doctor, but on Vancouver Island (same province) it is very hard

Australia is much better but it's a far wealthier country with far fewer people

In Portugal I can schedule any specialist doctor visit in a matter of days in advance all online via Calendly like interface.

I don’t need to wait for family doctor approval.

I can also go and run a lab panel at will, at many locations throughout the city. No dr referenced needed. Costs like 5-10 euros per lab without insurance.

When I went to see a dr, he actually spent time talking to me one on one for the full half hour allotted. No rushing. In Canada doctor would run in and out in minutes quickly just dishing out some prescription or a lab. I felt like I was just an item on a conveyor belt.

Let me check.. GDP per capita at purchasing power parity was 62k for Australia VS 58k for Canada last year. Pretty comparable. Population is 40M vs 26M. I guess you could argue that's far fewer people, but in the range of countries those are in the same general vicinity.

Income inequality (when I was there in 2010's) for Canada was twice that of Australia.

It (was/is) extremely rare to see homeless people in Australia while in most places in Toronto downtown its impossible to NOT see homeless.

If you spend few years in both countries you can clearly see the standard of living difference between both countries. Canadian infrastructure is much more poorer and worse off (my observation, not my complaint)

Australia has too many drawback and none of them are weather or socioeconomic.

Australia: negative of all the above.

I'm not even sure the cost of living is still surging. Gas is cheaper. Real estate is going sideways. At least in my personal experience it's stabilized.

More seriously. Canada had brain drain for some time. People leaving to the US e.g. I'm sure that's still happening. I think Trump being elected in the US slowed that somewhat. There's all sorts of reasons why people move from one country to another. Correlation, causation and all of that.

The Globe and Mail has an this headline: "BoC Deputy Governor Gravelle says high immigration adding to housing inflation".

EDIT: Also immigrants leaving isn't that unusual. Immigration isn't for everyone. You might have family and friends behind. It might be hard to make new connections. Get a job. It's pretty cold here too.

It has stabilized at the level the average Joe could never afford. Having a house was once relatively easy attainable goal. So we fucked it up.