Scotia: Nova Scotia

scotia: We're looking at a workforce that projected to shrink by 15 per cent over the next 20 years, according to The Chronicle Herald. This is not a five-year blip — this is a long term, potentially devastating problem. He the workplace culture coordinator for the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia . Demographically, Nova Scotia is in big trouble. Even if we bring every group in Nova Scotia up to full employment, we're still at a deficit. Doing so requires that we confront some lingering negative presumptions about immigration, chief of which is the belief that immigrants take jobs from locals. We need to be looking at any underemployed population which certainly includes bringing in more immigrants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.