Coalition Report

: The coalition report proposes a Collaborative Action Plan comprising 58 specific recommendations in seven broad areas: providing the youngest Nova Scotians with the best start in life stemming the persistent out-migration of our youth attracting and retaining more immigrants taking greater advantage of our universities and community college campuses as regional innovation hubs equipping Nova Scotia to be an information technology leader in Canada, thereby fostering more globally-competitive export businesses fully exploiting our many ocean-related advantages, according to The Chronicle Herald. The coalition report, like the Ivany report before it, is addressed to all Nova Scotians. The coalition — a group of 15 volunteers from a broad spectrum of Nova Scotia society, chaired by Premier Stephen McNeil and co-chaired by Opposition Leader Jamie Baillie and by acting NDP Leader Maureen Mac Donald — came together in May last year, tasked with developing an action plan to help achieve the ambitious goals set out by the Ivany commission. The emphasis is squarely on the need for collaborative approaches to our many opportunities and challenges. So the coalition has been explicit in assigning primary responsibility for implementation of its recommendations, whether to the provincial government, or to business, or to post-secondary education institutions, or to civil society organizations. But collaboration still requires leadership. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.