Atlantic Canada must be told ‘no,’ or it will continue to decline

By David MacKinnon and Marco Navarro-Genie

Even a brief glance at the economies of the Atlantic provinces in early 2016 indicates that a time of reckoning is at hand. Deficits are growing and threaten to become solvency crises. Regional outmigration has slowed down but continues. Remittances from western Canada are almost certainly falling rapidly.

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