Statistics Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador: Last weekend I found myself with business leaders talking about good leadership at the Face to Face conference in Terra Nova. Having a vision and a plan for executing it is what sets leaders apart, particularly when courage and commitment are needed to ensure that vision is attained, according to The Telegram. The latest projections from Statistics Canada show our population at about 526,000, but according to Stats Can, between 2013 and 2038, Newfoundland and Labrador will experience a population decline and Last month I wrote about the release of the City of St. Johns municipal plan, Envision St. Johns, which outlines how municipal officials want our city to look in coming years. But a municipal plan is not enough to secure our potential. We also need our provincial government, no matter what the political stripe, to articulate a vision for the future that will focus on sustaining and building upon our current prosperity. Sustaining the prosperity of Newfoundland and Labrador is going to require a plan to ensure we have the capacity to guarantee future project development. Capacity is going to be heavily influenced by productivity, and that means we had better have enough working-age people with the right skills to fill available jobs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.