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The results show that changes in the type of programs under which immigrants entered (specifically, the PNPs) accounted for virtually the entire rise in the shares of new immigrants going to Saskatchewan and Winnipeg, and played an important role in Alberta outside of Edmonton and Calgary. [...] Changes in regional economic conditions, together with broader changes in the structure of the Canadian economy, may have contributed to the dispersion of new immigrants in the 2000s in Canada. [...] The rise in the PNPs, and the decline in the FSW program, will affect the locations in which new immigrants settle. [...] For instance, the large increase in the number of immigrants from the Philippines was related, at least in part, to the rapid expansion of the PNP in Manitoba, which has a relatively high concentration of immigrants from that country. [...] For example, of the immigrants who said they intended to go to the rest of Quebec (excluding Montréal and the city of Québec), 65% went there; 21% went to Montréal, and 4% to the city of Québec.