“There was a strong sense that our business leadership was not engaged in [improving] immigration despite the fact that it is the biggest economic prerogative of our provincial economy right now,” she said. “We have the oldest population in the entire country in this region of Canada and our labour market shortages are extreme. We don’t exist in the future without immigrants,” she said.It is not just in New Brunswick that economic forecasts are grim.
In 2017, the federal government launched the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, a program designed to expedite immigration to all of the eastern provinces by matching skilled immigrants with employers. While the program has had some success in attracting immigrants, the region continues to struggle with persuading immigrants to set down roots for the long-term.
“We need to step forward to each other,” he said of Atlantic Canadians. “Art is actually a vehicle to bring people to a place they can talk.”The artists with the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada during rehearsal.There is much to be learned from the ballet’s own story. When the company launched 18 years ago, it was vaulted into what Ms. Chalmers-Gauvin calls “the business of immigration.”
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