Nova Scotia's Shrinking Population Woes
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024
- With its slow growth rate and aging population, Nova Scotia needs immigrants. But some argue it is not getting its fair share of them.
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Nova Scotia had a large amount of English immigrants during the last 15 years but many have left because there is no work .Theres not enough work for the locals ,so immigrants wont stay
i would.
I would if they had stable health care, nearly moved from Alberta to nova Scotia, with children health care ended the dream.
Sounds good to me
The problem with Halifax is low wages and high living costs. It isn't self-sustaining. I have to commute to work from the Bedford border and my two bedroom apartment still costs $1100 a month... I make $12 an hour in an office.
wow, that's expensive, I thought Halifax was affordable.
It is if you live outside of the city and have roommates. If you want to live on your own near town, you'll be paying at least $750 in rent alone, not including utilities.
SpongyOLlama its unfortunate that the stupid Canadian government doesn't invest in the East coast. I wanted to move there, but I will obviously not be able to afford an apartment with these low wages.
I aggree would love to move there but the cost of living is so high.
Move to New Glasgow. Cheap housing
I'd love to live in Halifax, but the fact is, we need to be where the job is. If there's no job, people cannot live.
Hi carol manson
Oh yes they can live there if there have the biggest welfare office and Tim Hortons in the world.
So true, l grew up on Vancouver, but got a career in Toronto.
"Jobs that Canadians won't do". What they don't say is "for the wage offered". Canadian youth want to build a life for themselves and their potential family (whatever makeup). The Nova Scotian economy doesn't allow with most wages falling well below the national average and even with lower living costs the security afforded in a high unemployment area doesn't create an economic environment for career and financial growth.
Businesses want these migrant workers because work visas will ensure they can't change jobs or negotiate their wage. The only thing that increased immigration will result in is the maintenance of the status quo for businesses and alleviate political pressure on politicians from dissatisfied workers. Nova Scotian youth don't do these jobs not because they are lazy; rather they leave Nova Scotia because they are hard working motivated people wanting/demanding a better life.
Or they feel these jobs are beneath them, or pay too little, or are dirty or dangerous or dead-end. There are different factors. I worked in the old Sheraton Halifax, now Casino, with immigrants who had Masters degrees and spoke 7 languages, but were washing dishes. They were willing to do whatever it took to set up a life. However, there is too little economic activity to move to NS. I lived in Dartmouth during childhood, but moved away when I became a teacher because there were full-time positions elsewhere, but not there. My wife is Chinese and when we talk about moving back, she asks me what she would do since it is so hard for her to find work or to set up a business that would last. Toronto, maybe. Calgary, Vancouver? But Halifax? Sadly, no.
+M Gee BEAUTIFUL analysis! Bravo! And you said it without blaming / attacking imaginary socialists or socialism or leftists or communism or communists.
@@dorarie3167 in America Mexicans dont have college degrees
I don’t understand liberals, first they say “ stop having kids- it’s bad for the environment “ then they say “ we need to bring in more people, because the natives aren’t having enough kids “ then they say “we need to have a higher minimum wage “ just to later say “ the locals won’t work for low wages so we need to bring in more foreign workers “ it seems like immigration is their answer to everything! Then they wonder why there’s such an economic gap and income inequality 😂 it makes them feel self righteous but they really don’t care for the immigrants or the people who may be displaced!
D Jay it’s really just some big corporation that paid for this documentary so they can get cheap labour. They don’t want to pay more for labour shortage
It doesn't matter if Nova Scotia could procure more immigrants from the feds, the feds are the ones who are processing the visas and setting up the rules. This poor woman in the video has been waiting 8 years!! That is absurd and a national embarrassment. No person should have to wait that long. I myself was born and raised in Nova Scotia and married a local girl a few hours drive away in Maine. But Maine is part of a different country of course, for her to come to Canada to live with me.....27 month wait. We are the only country that does this and most Canadians think it is because people are scrambling to come to Canada because it is so great. Nothing could be further form the truth, most people go to the USA, Australia, NZ, Europe, even Korea and Japan are becoming popular. Canada is nice but not a multiple year wait for PR nice, we have to be more competitive. The CIC needs a complete overhaul and a weeding out of incompetent staff. I left Canada to live with my wife because I got my green card in a month for the USA and it cost half of what Canadian PR does. That's two people that Nova Scotia lost and I am certainly not an isolated case That is what Nova Scotia has to compete with which makes me have a bleak outlook for the future.
Why do you think that feds don't want them in Nova Scotia. The people there cannot handle the difference in people. Very racist people. And they are not even trying to get better. It's a tragedy and an international embarrassment.
They hate ambitious people thats all
Speaking from personal experience, if you wouldn't toss your own under the bus as they pursue education and skills for the work force, you would have no shrinking population problem at all.
Total BS....We have some of the lowest wages and highest taxes in Canada here in Nova Scotia...The cost of living is ridiculously expensive here as well...That's why we have a shrinking population problem...I would bet that almost everyone here knows a bunch of people that have left to work elsewhere at some point because they can't survive on minimum wage which is the majority of the jobs that are available here. Not to mention the fact that the government could care less about the people that already live here..I'm not against immigration but the government needs to worry about fixing things before they invite new people to come.
I hear ya. There is a lot they could be doing here. There are good paying jobs out around nova scotia. Young people today do not want to get their hands dirty or when they get hired on somewhere they cry when they see other ppl there that have been there a few years that have a easier job. / scheduling.
I honestly think some work places could start caring less about themselves and start thinking more about others. In that regards i mean companies that have a lot of revenue or certain individuals paid an extreme amount more a year get garnished and spread the wealth. !!!! Greed is a deadly sin.
Also we should be taking even more advantage of hydro solar and wind energy. That is a new emerging sector that can bring about a lot of jobs in the emergibg and growing energy demands. If a company was voted to start such projects in nova scotia. I could see it keeping a few ppl in N.S
I agree, thats y i moved out at the first chance I had.
I agree
Nonsense !! The biggest bill is housing and that is relatively low here in NS
@@user-bn6ju5ip1i i agree also
It's not immigrants to Nova Scotia that will fix this downfall, Young Nova Scotians are leaving in droves because the jobs that pay well are in Ontario and Alberta (which are only now taking a hit of their own). We need to do more to entice corporations and manufacturers to help Nova Scotia build on keeping the young from abandoning their birth homes for what they believe are greener pastures to the west. We need to educate the youth to have a civic pride in their homes and hometowns. Most of the youth who have left would love to come home even if it meant taking a small cut in wages, but most Nova Scotians don't want to exist on minimum wage that companies in this province expect Nova scotians to accept.
They leave because the economy has declined because NS/ Canada has failed at immigration.
Why would Ontario companies come to a province packed only with old people? What workers will they hire? Most immigrants are better qualified than Nova Scotians, better educated, and more entrepreneurial. You only imagine they bring poverty because the province is backward and sinking and it's all you've known.
Thagros In this day and age commercial and industrial jobs are what keep youth from abandoning their places of birth. Wales died not by youth abandoning it but by the english politics keeping multi conglomerates on english soil. You really don't get what is going on in the world do you. If places like NS and Wales had large multinationals like GE, Novartis, Cadbury Schweppes, Proctor & Gamble, Dow Chemical, Ford, Unilever, Hewlett Packard or Sony even producing just one line of product in these places jobs would be plentiful and ungrateful people like you wouldn't be whining about "It's all the older generations fault". Get a life and grow up and be a man not a little girl.
Nothing to do with large corporates etc. I mean why would they, it's a remote province out in nowheregivesafuckville, packed with nothing but old people. who would bring a business here, you'd be crazy to.
We have few jobs because we count on welfare. Govt must say: "Work or leave, or starve." OK, support for the aged, the disabled - but 0 for the lazy!"
"the jobs that pay well are in Ontario and Alberta." --- because we have NOT A WORD TO SAY IN OTTAWA. Leave Canada- run our own show. Good bye Trudeau
Filipinos and punjabis people would gladly come there and boost the economy by building businesses 😊
People are leaving the province because the TAXES are so HIGH that it makes leaving there unsustainable, also the school system and the teachers are the worst in the country. People that are concerned about their children's welfare and education are fleeing the province in droves. I can speak from experience living in Whycocomagh where the school is so bad that the principal was forced to leave after I threatened to block the highway off because of unaddressed bullying. The case is very sad because it will not be fixed with the current school administrations in the surrounding areas, leaving kids with sub standard educations. We have moved to Calgary and the children are doing well in school, my advice would be to flee the province if you can for the good of your own health and the future generation you are raising.
Home School. What do our chhildren want with complex education when living off the land
I as a high school student can confirm how awful the education system is, most teachers don't even follow the curriculum and some have even been notorious for abusing students with their power no legal action being taken upon it. My family cannot afford to leave Nova Scotia but I plan to do for college.
I retired to Halifax 3 years ago for a cheaper house from Toronto and have lost so much money, cost of living here is crazy, heat is nuts as you have to heat 10 months of the year and it never stops raining.
I love Nova Scotia! I grew up there. But I'd never move back there because there aren't enough doctors and the hospitals are inadequate.
I don’t see immigrants moving there when there are no opportunities. I’m an immigrant here in the US and if I don’t see growth for me I wouldn’t move.
Opportunities are slim and advancement quite dismal in Atlantic Canada compared to other places in Canada.
Live in BC. Make $30.00/ hr. Can’t afford to stay here much longer. Grew up in Hfx area.
Live in Ontario, make $15 /hr working at a car-parts maker = Same thing; can't afford to pay rent and buy food at the same time.
My how things have changed almost 5 years after this news report. Atlantic Canada, Nova Scotia in particular, has been allowed to open its doors to new immigrants thanks to the Justin Trudeau government. The Halifax area is gaining about 10 thousand people per year since 2016, which has never happened in its 270 year history. Condos are filling the Halifax metro area skyline. The city government is working well with getting construction projects on the move, and they're not afraid to put those mouthpiece busybodies who don't want growth change in their place. The Sydney area has had an immigrant population explosion as well thanks to the hard work of the University of Cape Breton by luring people to the institution from India, China, Vietnam, etc. Those people want to stay in the area and start new lives/families. Who would have ever thought we'd see hopeless little Cape Breton doing well again. Now of course, not all communities in the province have benefited by this population explosion, so governments from all levels will need to continue to work together on this so that the whole province can enjoy the success.
4 years later... Nothing changed
I think it is interesting that the majority of my friends (and I cause I went to university in Halifax) all left as after we graduated there were few job options for us. Part of the problem in the maritimes not only is the fact that the population is aging, but the region has an issue of retaining their young population. Sending more immigrants there may stimulate the economy but I think you also need to examine the opportunities available for the young population which is already there.
Issue is people running the cities or the states in most places are clueless, They can reposition the state to something more , like making it a TECH HUB, offering tax incentives. One company like google is all you need
@Mr Cabot And the business man contractors. Don't forget that part
Do you live in TorVan and earn your living online?
I did.
I'm from the west coast--sold my overpriced condo and moved To NS and bought 3 acres of oceanfront and a lovely century home for half of the sale from my condo and banked the rest.
Clean air--lovely atmospheric and historic towns--400 years of culture-.Worlds friendliest people.Amazing seafood---whats not to like?
Don't miss my condo at all!
Come to NS and bring your online job with you.
@Julian Zehf depends on how you are qualified to make a living and if there are jobs for you here.
This is a fantastic place to live but it all hinges on a job--which are not plentiful here.
I moved to NS from Ontario and lived there for 10 years. Was constantly bullied, attacked, and picked on as a 'Come-from-away', so I was very glad to leave. Until Bluenosers change that attitude, they won't be able to attract immigration or outside investment. Simple as that.
Well thats sad to hear, is it really that bad there?
As a person who grew up there, I am unfortunately not surprised. I get looked down upon as even lower because I left and now go back in the summer. It is a beautiful place, but the culture is self-defeating. Too easily slighted, insecure. If only they could feel more pride in this place themselves, they would be more open to others.
I moved from Toronto to Halifax last year and had the same experience. Didn’t feel welcome at all. People constantly made me feel like an outsider and even referred to me as “Onterrible.” Hey I don’t like Ontario either but talk about projection. Much happier now in Calgary. Albertans don’t seem to care where I am from and are just as friendly. Way more job opportunities and low taxes too.
I too have worked four jobs at once... cleaning toilets, chemical cleaning of cold storage rooms, garden maintenance and trolley collection.. Sadly, the average citizen deems these jobs as beneath them. Yet, government will not give residency to migrants who want to work hard, no matter what the job, the hours, the pay.. crazy times we live in!
Ironically, the year after this video, starting in 2016 was the beginning of a marked in increase in population, primarily from immigrants. Led by Halifax which saw it's population rise by 8% in those 4 years
Here is what Nova Scotia needs to do to solve this problem: Allow 'Bunkies' to be built on vacant lots. A 'Bunkie' is simply a 100 square-foot (or less) room that a person lives in. It has a bed, bathroom, and mini kitchen/dinette. A person can build one for around $8,000 (less than one year of rent). Usually they are allowed on a property that someone else already owns and has a structure on, but not allowed on vacant land. There would be hundreds of thousands of youth building them as a way to escape poverty with today's low wages (low compared to the high cost of living). And once a person's cost of housing is dramatically reduced that way, they can easily live on low-paid minimum wage jobs available to them.
She wiped the seat and everywhere else with the same cloth lol
I lived 4 years in Halifax. Im happy I left. nice people, but the life was just too boring there.
I'm a social worker and my partner is an ER nurse. We both want to immigrate to Nova Scotia, but they make it so damn difficult. It's ridiculous.
what is difficult?
Professional designations from other countries, especially in healthcare have to match Canadian or American designations to be able to do the same profession here without upgrading. Otherwise you have to do upgrading courses to be able to continue in the same field.
Even PEI is doing better...
Percentage wise i mean...
I currently live on Vancouver Island, but am originally from southern Ontario. I just happen to have lived in two of the most expensive provinces to live. I'm retired now and live on a small pension, but I'm considering moving east to Nova Scotia. Fortunately I don't have to (nor do I want to) live near a major centre. I'm also about to launch an online store to sell things I make, so I should be able to live quite comfortably (economically at least) out east. Not sure about the winters though...brrrr. it's been a long time since I handled that type of weather. But, I lived with cold winters in Ontario for 40 years, so I think I can still manage it.
I am sorry to hear about how rough it is for young people these days, though.
Hey guys, i have one niece and a nephew that moved to Halifax several years ago, and they seem content. My Northern NB neighbors mostly moved to southern NB and Prince Edward Island, they're about 57 years old now. I'm Acadian and my 2 sisters (50's ) each bought a house for about $75,000, LoL, around Bathurst NB. Clean small houses, one replaced concrete floor $2000 in the garage and the other made a Deck in back of the house, cute. Now they are totally independent and happy cause they have family and old friends around town. I guess a guy can either risk open a business venture in the Big's cities and work 75 hours a week or just get real and spend more time with friends and family or create more friends and have a hobby or two. Oh i forgot, i also have 2 sis and a brother that moved to Moncton and my cousin to Bouctouche (RCMP)... They complain about the snow at times, but Hispanics complain about the hot tropical weather down south all the time.
Stay where you are the cost of living here in N.S. is the highest in Canada, they don`t tell you that
@@tracygraf4676 but Why is that?
Some small towns in Nova Scotia such as Annapolis Royal have been marketing themselves as a good place to retire too. As someone from Southern Ontario who has traveled to the Atlantic provinces a few times and frequently compared real estate prices I can tell you that a $250000 budget buys you a much more upscale home in virtually all of Atlantic Canada than most anywhere within a half day drive of Toronto. Our housing market is so expensive that nearly half of all young adults are still living with their parents. There are plenty of $500000 houses in places like Orangeville now that a lot of Toronto and Mississauga are routinely paying above asking price for anything remotely upscale. Toronto has several houses that sell for over a million dollars.
Catherine Melnyk do not move
Well, I hope to find a job there. Healthcare worker here.
theres no bloody work there!
6.11 where are the people he built the condomminium for ? Its like abandoned. Canada, Nova Scotia, stopped me from returning as I was taken out at the age of 21/2 - 3 when I asked why I could not get citizenship I was told I had denied my country at the age of 3yrs old!!!!! They don't even want people born there and in the town where I was born I had generations of family, aunts and uncles and cousins, almost every house. I have never been in trouble and I make my own job to cover my costs. Nova Scotia my home land taken from me and blocked by Nova Scotia! This is the heritage they built for the residents.
would be nice to move to nova scotia
the crime rate is a hell of a lot lower then toronto
I've lived in both Toronto and Halifax, both cities are fine as long as you don't wander around sketchy area in the middle of night by yourself.
@Jay Williams You're naive as well.
Jay Williams wait I’m American , so forgive me because I don’t know, but I’m told that Canadians don’t own guns or the laws are very strict. So why is there so much gun violence?
Growing up in NS I heard about nothing but economic woes, but life was still great. It is a beautiful place and a friendly, community-minded place to raise a family. Halifax and small towns are lively and Nova Scotians have a great sense of humour. You are always close to the ocean and nature. Ignore all the griping and complaining. That is just like the inconsistent weather, you have to laugh it off and just enjoy life. I hope they find a way to fast-track immigrants to grow the tax-base and that people begin to have more children. I dont know what will happen to the tidal wave of elderly people, but eventually they will pass away and Nova Scotia, like thousands of other places in North America, will reinvent itself and struggle along. I just hope we can keep our health and education system going while we try to get through this demographic crisis.
God bless Raquel!
Halifax is a great place to live, people are friendly, there are tons of things to do for its size, near to the ocean and mild weather. However, the cost of living is high for what it offers
Not much construction in Nova Scotia; that's a problem
One day , who can really predict a big boom in the future. With the climate getting so hot in the South, the masses will maybe move in the Maritimes in 20 years, who really knows, especially dumb Liberal future forecasters LOL
nova scotia would be a wonderful and suitable financial environment for retired people, however this places a greater demand on medical facilities, and needs etc! if I didn't have my family all around me, I would be gone yesterday!
To be fair, NS is the only province in Atlantic Canada to have year after year pop growth
There is a lot of people in TORONTO without a job. Nova scotia does not pay to go there minimum wages is $8.00 hr. BS
Wow! That is a hamburger and fries per hour!
IMO:
More people bring more money, more money brings more polarized rich-poor class, which bring down the life quality of Nova Scotia overally.
That's a good analysis. I hate the cultural de defence (we must avoid immigrants to preserve our culture) Because i'm pro-multiculturalism. But that you say is a good argument 👍👍
I want to settle in and run my own business but there is no help and hope to do that.
well it worked now dec 2019 we have a housing shortage and immigrants are everywhere
I would bet you five dollars that they don't allow my previous comment to get through ever.
I am from Alberta, people are fleeing the province to places like Toronto or Vancouver. Even I am thinking of leaving the province.
Why are people fleeing Alberta? Recession?
@@donkeydik2602 True
Toronto housing is not cheap
In an evermore crowded world it is strange to hear of a province desperate to attract more immigrants.
If you want immigrants to stay the key is to make it a nicer place to live for the people who always live here. If the people who live here hate it then no one will stay. No one will have a reason to immigrate. Job market is god awful here! Housing market is a nightmare. This is coming from an American living in Nova scotia. I’m seriously considering packing up my family and taking my Nova Scotian husband back to texas with me because we can’t find housing for the family we’re trying to start. The price of rent is OUTRAGEOUS! What reason do we have to stay? At least we know we could easily afford a 2 bedroom apartment that we need back in texas. It’s not fair to our baby that we’re forced to live in a tiny one bedroom with two working adults. It's not right!
This region of Canada still has the lowest rate of retention of immigrants for a reason. By Canadian standards the Maritimes is economically depressed and is one of the least sought after places for Canadians to live. I would rather live lower middle class in BC or Alberta than upper middle class in NB: I'd even settle for living poor on one of the west coast's Gulf Islands.
I'm from Ontario, Canada, and we have almost as bad a problem here too. A lot of people from Ontario are planning on leaving Ontario and moving to America simply to find better paying work and low cost housing, and Texas and North Carolina/Tennessee are on the tops of their lists.
This focus on immigration isn't exactly forward thinking. I mean, a fair amount of immigrants that choose to live in the Maritimes and just end up leaving anyways due to the lack of work. And on top of that, if you have the exodus of young people leaving west as well as the hilariously low birth rate. Why even focus on immigrants if you can't even retain your own people? Perhaps concentration should be driven towards skilled immigrants that can facilitate additional jobs? And when you talk Nova Scotia, concentration should be outside of Halifax where population decline is an issue. Featuring an individual who moved to Halifax where population decline is not an issue is not really an honest take on the subject, CBC.
Population replacement! Half of all jobs can be automated in the next couple of decades! Where is all the cheap labour going to go?
Yes. But replacement by robots more than for inmigrants. It's all the profits first system that makes this shift apparently unavoidable
Or landlords could just lower rent
The real issue is low wages and high provincial taxes, property taxes and inflated assessments don`t just keep people from moving away but keep people from moving here as well
sad, sad, sad. We need doctors, they can't get through the paperwork. I recently saw the paperwork to apply for paperwork for immigration here to Canada. As a Canadian citizen, I'd have to hire a lawyer to help me navigate the paperwork.. It's crazy. We need qualified, trained professionals here.
I lived in Ns when I was younger I was a janitor it’s not a bad gig pretty easy work
Canadians don’t understand game theory
Not enough work for native Nova Scotians, so where will immigrants work?
Many jobs in NS. Too many who want 25$/hr ...Get real
Greta job selling Nova Scotia qawii3. I'm sure all these immigrants coming to Nova Scotia will look forward to working at Tim Horton's for $12/hr.
@@qawii3 Why wouldn't they?
Every teen should do volunteer work cleaning public washrooms. It teaches humility, respect for workers, and respect for hard work and reinforces the need for education like nothing else.
@Pillars lol funny notta. I am a mom of three, two boys 24 and 21, and a girl 17. I see so many lazy entitled teens and adults that have a mean dose of reality when life is not just handed to them. A humble, grateful, hard working person finds happiness and success. I love that for all youth.
average salary 3.4w GST 15% compared with superstore or Sobey() between Toronto and Halifax the price is expensive.
I'm pleased to say that Nova Scotia has had nearly double the number of immigrants on average per year across all years since the release of this video
I use to live in Halifax but here it is a nutshell highest hydro rates in Canada one of the worst doctor to patient ratios in Canada and the cost of living index is close to Vancouver and Toronto
Companies need to offer better wages and stop paying ceos big money. Its sickening what certain ppl make. They fired a ceo that worked with sobeys company making almost 7 million a year ! That is like that is over 200 jobs paying $35,000 a year !!!!!!!!
I have never been there but one day I would like to visit. I am thinking immigrants dont want to move there because of high cost of living and winter has to be extremely cold since ocean surrounding the island.
Most immigrants that go there is because it is one of the easiest ways to expedite and qualify for immigration.
Canadians need to work too, back in the 90's they were big on work experience now the govt brings in immigrants to fill the positions cause of the cheap factor. how is this working bring in foreign workers that replace Canadians who need the jobs so far. Canadians did complain that big businesses that brought in cheap workers instead of looking after its own. we need and want big corporations to entice local and all over Canada itself to encourage to hire at home instead of looking for cheap labour. i know its important to bring in workers out of country but look at home first to fill the position for Canadians. Canada should not be a revolving door for any one to just come in.
As with many wealthy nations, immigrants often begin by doing menial and difficult tasks unwanted by Canadians. The woman in the video was cleaning toilets and emptying garbage cans, honest work, but not something many Canadians necessarily want to do. Immigrants and migrants often do unappealing work, and then locals complain that they take jobs from nationals.
Yeah, best you sink slowly into destitution, that makes sense.
In the time of Globanization, Its requirement for cheap labour. Otherwise, Jobs will transfer to India , china and third world countries. Canada and USA will be a country with poor people.
I damm sure they could have found someone in Halifax that would do that janitor work.
murr cyril murr cyril YUP, I use to do commercial cleaning but everything got jeapordised quickly when immigrants came in and wanted to do the job for half the pay. I just said screw it and got out of there. Yeah, the owners have admitted they are not doing as good of a job but you get what you pay for.
It's nuts the differences between provinces as well. There's 3 provinces with equal rental costs but average hourly wage gaps between $2 - $8 an hour.
Not surprised people come to this province then leave it in large groups. Same rent, bit pricier to eat, worse wage and less to do.
That's absolute bullshit. I'm Canadian and would love to live in Nova Scotia if there was work and wages were better for the amount of taxes....we need to quit looking to foreign exchange students and immigration to put a bandaid on the problem, take care of CANADIANS first....raise the wage , bring in entrepreneurs that are CREATING JOBS....I would like to live and work there but not for under $16/hr , comming from being a housekeeper in Toronto making $18/hr when minimum wage is $14....still a better shot...put money into marketing and tourism, give people land who are creating jobs...
Eco houses air b and bs, winter fun , festivals, and sports, agriculture ....etc
Guys, you're going to have to be more subtle with your propaganda than this. This is really obvious.
I would love to move there, or at least buy some property there. Lakefront is cheap. Quinan is nice, fairly remote, near Tusket. Sounds amazing. It must be crazy expensive to build though.
Too bad ticks and black flies aren't desirable crops. A person could become a billionaire in no time...
Legalize marijuana, gambling, prostitution, and all the other alternative industries. Las Vegas did it in the middle of an empty desert, so can you Nova Scotia!! It's time to sink or adapt and swim!
You are kidding, right
Well said, Amy Wheelwright! Subscription for you!
+Tracy Graf No. Why would you think that? Just because an opinion goes against the status quo, business as usual, tradition, habit, does not make it wrong. In fact, it usually makes it right.
No that is not how you build , Turn it into a TECH HUB. Give free land to Google, facebook and see what happens
Too much bureaucratic apathy in Canada.
Since goverment oficials have a cushy job, get well paid, etc etc the usual mentality of "" im well of, fuck you"". So, my anwser would be to come together, turn your back (literaly or not, is up to the ability of each person)on the goverment and work together as community. Goverments are, for the most part, EXTREMELY useless...................i mean it.
This childish idea of a "good working benign Goverment" is rather silly........
I would say that of the Americas, Canada has the BEST Goverment. USA is a Military Industrial complex Police state Republican Democrat circus. Mexico is Cartel owened. Venezuala under martial law at present. Brazil, no comment......the list is rather long concerning Brazils problems. Anyways, i believe the reader gets the gist of it.
Come together...or...well, enjoy a steady but slow, yet, steady erosian of some basic principles and rights.
Am ready to settle in! but the new system of Express Entry may never allow us to do so....
Sorry, Zawar, there's a backlog. Best to save your lawyer fees and stay where you are for now.
I want to move there, buy property, wok, but they make it too hard. Ugh.
Canadians should build the aptitude to create jobs instead of moving elsewhere just to work for others. The opportunities are endless! All you have to do is find a need and fill it. NS has plenty of needs but not enough abled and willing people to fill those needs. Tragic. :(
+Denise R.
I think so too and it's not easy to immigrate when you are able for a job. I know this, i try it now over a year.
I am considering moving there.
So, did you?
We do, too. But after all of this here... might reconsider...
@@annak4314 Not yet, but really looking. There are some great deals on lakefront property. I like the Quinan area, Tusket is near and has great fiood, 20 minutes to the Ferry to Portland. etc. Paradise. 37 acres of lakefront, W/electricity at the road, 800 feet of lakeshore, taxes $419 per year..... Google LAC A PIC. Modern Realty has that for sale.
this is why you people need to become plumbers or electricians, we can get jobs anywhere we want
Developer made it=progress. Philippine lady has family of five who are waiting to arrive = still waiting.
Who’s here coz of the ads?
Nova Scotia doesn't have enough work that's why the population there has decreased. but I'm not sure if people will be there within the next 20 or 30 years from now maybe maybe not
Because of the ongoing scientific AI culture, who can really predict what in the next 20 years. Montreal is already pretty deprived of new jobs and commuting to work is hell. Toronto's new immigrants might clash and sack the the banks, politicians and small business to latter slavery years. One thing is for sure, the Liberal future forcaster's are trolls.
"Montreal is already pretty deprived of new jobs and commuting to work is hell."
Contradiction in terms.
Labor needed: to redesign Montreal's transportation system. So, there's your jobs.
THIS GOV GIVES SINGLE PARENTS MONEY FOR APT. FOR 1 BOY 1 GIRL 1 PARENT THEY HAVE TO GET 3 BR APT. WELFARE WILL NOT ALLOW THEM TO SHARE 1 BR APT. TAXPAYERS HAVE TO WAKE UP
Please take some of the large number of "illegal" immigrants from Toronto. Toronto is too over populated.
if this is true...then why are all the subdivisions getting bigger and bigger,more cars on the road,and just more people everywhere,with hardly any room,sobeys,superstores etc etc getting bigger and bigger..i think cbc does not get out around....
I LOVE this video
Sproing, sproing, sproing.
That’s the sound of immigrants bouncing out of N.S. to other provinces after they’ve gotten resident status.
Think this lady from the Philippines is going to stay in N.S?
No way.
Curious how she wound up in N.S. Where’s her partner? 5 kids?! Omg.
Even if wages on NS are lower on avg than the rest of canada, surely the lower housing cost offsets that and then some.
Personally Halifax wages is that low that you have to work more just to live. If we take a consideration let's say Montreal. The wages is a little bit higher but you could still have an affordable housing plus better social services for you and your family
@Julian Zehf Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Both provinces have best potential however you have to consider the cost of living, if you want to live in a bigger city, etc.
@Julian Zehf Newfoundland is a good province if you like to study, work for a minimum wage type jobs. It's a tougher province to grow because most jobs are related to oil and fishing, some of them are gone and the locals went to other provinces to provide for their family. If you are a ready for a challenge, go for it
@Julian Zehf No problem
I'm a white unemployed Canadian if I went to Nova Scotia would I get a job . Willing to do hard work. I'm willing to bet they want immigrants because they will work for much less than minimum wage. Is that the case?
As long as the immigrants are processed accordingly. let them , but obviously NovaScotia dont do that.
To many comments about no job in Nova Scotia. Yet, no praise for the cleaning lady or the top developer, an immigrant from Lebanon. I don't think I would even visit there now. I don't feel the people are friendly there.
What are the best places to live in Canada in terms of jobs and wages? Canadians?
If you want a good job and good wages with low cost of living. Outside of Montreal area is very good but you have to learn French
John Calmonte Anywhere in ontario is good. From what I’ve heard quebec has a weaker economy
new needy immigrants with no canadian working skills, migrate to the large city centres, and begin living on welfare, taking funds, but not producing any income or property tax base to support the system? it has only one direction of evolution, which is a decending quality of life, and as it progresses, the provinces financial infrastructure, begins to move to a more compatable financial environment, which accelerates the communities decline, look at detroit?
He's right. This should of been started 15 years ago. But isnt not a place that even has jobs, because like most governments they are usless.
The bigger question to this big shot is :
You have lived in Canada for 30 years right...why do you have a Lebanese flag in you office? Why not a Canadian flag, Nova Scotia or no flag at all.
You are sending the wrong message there buddy.... That's a place of business not your home.
They can pack 1 billion people on that island. Ship them in! Just build up like in Japan.
that province has no work
that's why no one is staying out relocating.....I have a few new people living on my block all from that province. ontario is booming and all with new comers
Smart move I wish I could live there I love NOVA SCOTIA HALIFAX I CRY THAT I WAS NOT BORN there if it's true about reincarnation Lord I want to be born over there God bless Canada
To be honest, the problem is not that we don't import enough immigrates, the problem is that without enough jobs, the immigrants are not going to stay in Nova Scotia. For the past ten years, most of the immigrates we get moved to Toronto and Vancouver. Even if Nova Scotia got a large number of immigrates in, without the jobs to support their families, they are going to move to either the big cities or stay on the welfare system which is already in great strain.
nova scotia here I come...!!!
I think you should advertise it as a retirement area, it would bring people in.
Carla Garrett That would be counter-productive as Nova Scotia is already undergoing a demographics crisis. We have a disproportionate amount of seniors and not enough young workers to support them.
Because the province is outdated and racist. The younger whites think that they older whites are just hateful and discrimnative. And they don't want to get better and change. The world is looking at Nova Scotia as an ignorant pit of bigots and it's time they grow. It's really an International embarrassment.They need to travel and see how the rest of the world is at least facing these problems and finding solutions.
I moved here to retire and have to try and sell because of lack doctors, property taxes are outrageous , food is very expensive and all around very high cost of living
One more thing try finding a doctor here
Immigrants are needed is Nova Scotia HAHAHA. How about a normal wage. Why do you think most young talented people leave Nova Scotia? Because there are no good paying jobs.
People will not do that job if there is better jobs with pay in another province or even diferente country. Saying they are want people and nothing changes with cic.
Canadians in other provinces would love to move to Nova Scotia, but then we're the Long Term forgotten Immigrants!!"
Hey, Paris, take in some of the migrants, I want my Raddison back, Pal.
Go to welfare lots of unemployed willing to work
Give me A job and house and I'll move there from Saskatchewan.....
Even if you were given a house you could not afford to live here
lowest minimum wage in canada, few opportunities to make much more than that - in my own experience. rent costs are insane considering the economic factors at play here. this developer in the video is damaging the city with his projects, driving up the rent costs by developing almost exclusively condos. i am from halifax county, and even though i want to stay here, at 22 my life sort of feels like it will hit a dead end after i graduate from university... do not want to move at all, but will probably have to considering what i've studied and the lack of opportunities available here. most of my peers and friends plan on leaving too. most of them have decided they will give it one year to try and make something work before they'll give up and head someplace else. pretty sad reality , that none of my friends and colleagues plans in nova scotia go beyond a year post grad.... myself included.
Hey South America is looking for Doctors and Lawyers