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Originally Posted by Antigonish
The province's artificial growth plan will be the writing on the wall. You cannot say you want to double the population in just 2 generations without any concrete development plans to make it work. You need industry to invest first to attract any population growth. Dumping people here on a whim just destroys what's left for everybody already here.
As for the trades, I know lots of people who work in the trades and more who went to university only to switch over for job opportunities but the pay is becoming crap now like pretty much every industry. If you want to attract more (actual) skilled workers you need to incentivize financially which we know isn't happening.
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I broadly agree, but the growth targets are mostly political theatre--population growth is occurring due to much larger factors over which the province has no control (basically, Nove Scotia is a nice place to live, with an economy that's no longer quite so doldrum-y, and it's still cheaper than the country's hotbeds of unaffordability). It's more about larger social trends and macroeconomic effects, and much less about the particulars of any growth strategy the province might dream up.