Economic development in Atlantic Canada
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I have now listened to more than a dozen podcasts and audio articles about the breakdown in trade negotiations between Canada and the United States, and none of them mentioned Trump’s desire to use tariffs as a tax on Americans to help reduce the massive federal deficit.
I recently heard a prominent national journalist talking about the continued decline of young people in “dying, rust-belt east coast towns”.
Sometimes I read or hear grand pronouncements about the workforce.
Trevor Tombe is the latest economist arguing that Canada doesn’t need to worry so much about population aging or slower population growth.
The first time I saw Gerry Pond was in the early-mid 1990s and he was a VP at NBTel.
Canada is the second largest country in the world by land area and by any comparative measure is sparsely populated.
I can’t get that Belfast stabbing out of my head.
After watching the former President of UNB, John McLaughlin, interact with the public on one of his public sessions as head of the natural gas panel (way back when), I remember thinking if there was a way to have him visit every New Brunswick household, sit down and have a coffee or tea, and talk through the issues, at least we would all be working from the same set of facts.
I had an interesting conversation recently with a couple of folks in the economic development biz.
“He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Don Mills and I had the opportunity to speak at the State of the Strait conference in Port Hawkesbury last week.
Your old men shall dream dreams.
