Kathy Dunderdale: Deputy Minister

Population Growth Strategy Dept: Dunderdale on Thursday announced that Ross Reid a former St. John's East MP who has held senior posts with the government, while also working twice as the campaign manager for provincial Progressive Conservative campaigns is the new deputy minister responsible for the province's population growth strategy, according to CBC. "Our demographic is scary," Dunderdale said and newfoundland and Labrador has created a new office that will tackle a decades-long slide in its population and a demographic picture that Premier Kathy Dunderdale describes as frightening. The government has appointed a deputy minister to run a population growth strategy. Thoughts? "We've got to find a way to grow that population," Dunderdale told reporters, acknowledging that the province now has a greying population that is drawing heavily on public services. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.