Atlantic Canadian Content and Regional Economic Development

Newfoundland Labrador: Tuesday budget does include some Atlantic Canadian content, according to The Chronicle Herald. There is a $34-million boost to ferry funding and Newfoundland and Labrador struggling economy will receive an additional $32 million in fiscal stabilization transfers in 2016-17. This is all very un-Harper, but there is one way in which the new Liberal gang in Ottawa resembles the old Conservative one: It still hard to fathom the overall approach to what used to be called regional economic development. But the Trudeau government has yet to articulate a policy response to the economic and demographic trends afflicting Nova Scotia — an aging population, the exodus of the young, and annual rates of economic growth that trail the national average with alarming consistency. It can be argued Mr. Former prime minister Stephen Harper view of the Atlantic economy was implicit rather than stated, but his policies suggested a belief that longstanding trends were likely to continue, regardless of any government attempts to reverse them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.