[Nashe]

I (not so seriously, I admit) think about what the cost would be to "re-settle" parts of rural NB towards the urban centers... somewhat like the government of NL did with it's outports. The latter was a bit more extreme of an example, but there has to be at least a break-even at some point... where the cost to buy-out and move someone is less than the cost of infrastructure and services to cover the dwindling population.

The wildcard is, of course, people probably don't WANT to move... the ones that might be most incentivized by a buy-out would be the 0-45 year olds... which kinda doesn't help.