Alberta’s population experience is the opposite, with a growing labour force. While B.C.’s population grew since January 2022 by eight per cent, Alberta’s population, now over five million, jumped 12 per cent. In the past year alone, over 40,000 people moved to Alberta from abroad and another 24,000 from other parts of Canada. With this growing population comes demand for health care, school and post-secondary institution that Alberta has to address while oil and gas royalties and corporate tax revenues fall as resource prices drop this year.