Editing Bas-Saint-Laurent (section)

=== Immigration ===
The regional conference of elected representatives considers immigration to be a major issue for the economic and social development of Bas-Saint-Laurent and expends great efforts to attract new inhabitants, it also creates programs of insertion and promotion for them.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Conférence régionale des élues du Bas-Saint-Laurent |title=Immigrant population according to arrival period, administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent, 2006 |website=Institut de la statistique du Québec |url=http://www.crebsl.org/social/immigration |access-date=16 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016111624/http://www.crebsl.org/social/immigration |archive-date=16 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bas-Saint-Laurent welcomed 585 immigrants between 2001 and 2006, which is about 30% of the 2000 inhabitants who migrated there according to the 2006 census. The RCM of Rimouski-Neigette welcomed more than half (310) of the new arrivals in the region between 2001 and 2006<ref>{{cite web |last1=Government of Quebec |title=Immigrant Population according to arrival period, administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent, 2006 |website=Institut de la statistique du Québec |url=http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/regions/recens2006_01/immigration01/perimmig01.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130422221029/http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/regions/recens2006_01/immigration01/perimmig01.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 April 2013 |access-date=16 March 2013 |author1-link=Government of Quebec }}</ref>

These numbers must however be put in relation to the fact that 77.3% of the 236,975 immigrants to settle in Quebec between 1998 and 2007 chose the metropolitan region of Montréal, Bas-Saint-Laurent received only 0.2% of the immigrants that came to Quebec during this period. 
<ref>{{cite web |last1=Government of Quebec |title=Statistical Quebec: Immigration |website=Institut de la statistique du Québec |url=http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/publications/referenc/quebec_stat/pop_imm/pop_imm_10.htm |access-date=16 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003145245/http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/publications/referenc/quebec_stat/pop_imm/pop_imm_10.htm |archive-date=3 October 2013 |url-status=dead |author1-link=Government of Quebec }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1= Youth commission of Bas-Saint-Laurent |title=Immigration : Bas-Saint-Laurent, a region open to immigration |website=Le Bas-Saint-Laurent pour vivre à temps plein |url=http://www.vivreatempspleinbsl.com/setablir/? |access-date=16 March 2013}}</ref>