While population growth is helping the region shake off its reputation for unemployment and outmigration, it’s also straining services and community ties – and governments appear unprepared to act
For more than 100 years, the Maritime story has been about managing decline. The reasons for the region’s economic challenges have been well documented – high unemployment levels, outmigration, reliance on federal transfers, federal economic policies, and resistance to immigration, among them.
The reasons for the turnaround are varied. Forty years ago, the best and brightest from my university would tell me that government work was the ticket to a rewarding career. Today, I see more and more students looking to start their own business, instead. Fifty years ago, the perception was that businesses from away just had to nudge their products downhill to the Maritimes to succeed, and so many local businesses felt that they could not compete.
The federal government has several regional development agencies, which have head offices located in urban centres. Their programs are designed to fuel economic growth, and promoting growth is easier to do in urban centres. However, regional development policy was never designed to add fuel to overheating economies.
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