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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
No other province in the federation is hamstrung like this. It's why the safest decision for the provincial bureaucracy is no decision at all. This is why nothing gets done in this province and this is why we're falling behind everyone else.......  |
I agree.
It can be sad to see some smaller communities' population dwindle in some regions but overall, the migration of people from the North to the South is likely beneficial to this province as a whole and helps to shift the balance of power to centralized urban areas. Other regions of Canada all experienced rural exodus decades ago but this event was delayed and much weaker in Atlantic Canada and particularly in NB. I always wondered why this was so. I assume the early settlement of multiple areas in the region, each with its own history and identity may be a resisting factor. Or the lack of the emergence of a single large urban area becoming the de facto ''central city'' for the province as an obvious destination for migrants and industry.
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