Aside from existing employees moving from Halifax, or new employees being hired from Halifax and moving to these locations... how is this even possible?
The talent pool for government administration is bad enough in the biggest city in the region... how are they going to find qualified people in upper-butt crack NS?
I bet all the heritage cronies in the NDP are loving this because they can justify that there isn't office space demand downtown. This is a shot at Halifax and at downtown. Its not like jobs are being destroyed in rural areas, they are merely being destroyed in Halifax. #irrational
I bet the trade offs in costs between Halifax rents vs. all of the costs of decentralizing (and the eventual reversal as mentioned by a number of fourmers) will be astronomical.
Haligonians, particularly those living on the peninsula and downtown are getting screwed every which way.