Foreign Students: Peter Moreira

Nova Scotia Tories Dept: The policy question sparked a lively discussion at the party s annual general meeting, with a majority voting in favour of it in the end, according to The Chronicle Herald. "Why not expand their mandate so that we are . . . encouraging foreign students who are studying in the region to stay here, develop the innovation that they ve worked on at university and work with them with the immigration departments of the four provinces to help them stay here and start businesses here," he said and nova Scotia Tories were split Saturday on wanting a future Progressive Conservative government to provide money for foreign students to set up businesses here, with some saying the province needs to keep Nova Scotia students here, too. Peter Moreira, author of Backwater: Nova Scotia s Economic Decline, led a party task force on immigration and the economy. He said the idea is to build on a current initiative in the four Atlantic provinces called Springboard Atlantic, which helps turn research at universities into money-making ventures. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.