Youth Retention and Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia: The Nova Scotia finance ministers comments on youth entitlement added insult to injury just days after her budget withdrew more than $34 million in support for youth retention and employment. The decision and discourse, coming less than two months after the release of the Ivany commission report, is stunning, according to The Chronicle Herald. We have also done poorly in attracting and retaining immigrants. First-generation Canadians make up only 4.8 per cent of Nova Scotias population, compared to 23.8 per cent nationally and Nova Scotia has been a net loser of youth ages 20 to 35 each and every year since 1984. We have lost 16,650 young people in the last decade, including 3,200 people in 2013; our highest recorded total in at least 33 years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.