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Nearly 34,000 jobs were created in the Montreal area in 2018, while more than 19,000 jobs were lost in the rest of the province during the same time period, a study by the Institut du Québec has found.

And a co-author of that study says that if economic and demographic trends affecting the city continue, the growth gap between Montreal and the rest of Quebec will only get bigger.

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“Since last year and, I believe, the year before that, there was far more job creation going in Montreal than elsewhere in Quebec,” Jean-Guy Côté said. “If the demographic and economic curves remain the same, the widening (of that gap) will continue. If Montreal continues to receive a larger percentage of immigration than it does now, that split will be accelerated because immigration remains a generator of economic growth.”

This fourth edition of the Institut’s Comparer Montréal study measures the city’s economic performance, productivity and quality of life against those in 14 similar North American cities as well as the rest of the province.