A PQ victory has some Quebec residents considering an out-of-province move

I got an email from a friend of mine in Montreal on Tuesday, before the Quebec election results were announced, saying that a Parti Quebecois victory would speed-up her family's relocation to British Columbia.

Like a lot of Anglophones in Quebec, she isn't comfortable with the idea of a soveriegnist government.

And she wasn't the only one thinking about a big move. Many took to Twitter after the PQ victory suggesting the same thing:

While it's one thing to say you're going uproot your family, it's another thing to actually do it.

According to a CTV News report from last week, there were actually some people making the move prior to the election.

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A real estate agent from Hawkesbury, Ontario, which is on the Ontario side of the Quebec/Ontario boundary, told CTV that many of her recent clients have been Quebecers.

"We're getting twice as many phone calls [from Quebec]," she said.

"The numbers have increased substantially. People just want to leave. They say they want to move to Canada — they don't feel Quebec is a part of Canada."

The PQ winning a minority versus a majority government, however, has likely tempered the resolve of many.

At least for the time being, don't expect a mass exodus down the 401.