By DAVID AKIN, QMI AGENCY
OTTAWA – Nova Scotia has an immigration problem.
As that province’s Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie told a breakfast crowd in Ottawa Tuesday, there simply aren’t enough immigrants choosing Nova Scotia as a place to build a business and raise a family.
But this is just not Nova Scotia’s problem. Many provinces and regions in this country are struggling with the same issue.
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pointed out on several occasions since coming to office, the No. 1 threat to our future prosperity is that we will fail to have enough skilled workers to continue to generate wealth and support our world-leading quality of life in a decade or two from now.
For whatever reason — too busy watching Hockey Night in Canada? — we are, as a nation, simply not reproducing at a rapid enough rate. That means we will need immigrants — hundreds of thousands of them — over the next two decades to help to continue to build this country.
