For maybe 50 years the focus on "development" in Atlantic Canada has been about creating jobs for those with few skills or in rebuilding old buildings.
Is it working?
I would like to build on the idea that the issue has never been jobs or buildings but culture.
Culture? Adventurous people create sustainable jobs not government. Buildings don't create sustainable jobs. Creative people create sustainable jobs. PEI works hard to marginalize those that are creative. This is I believe the heart of our problem.
Is your child creative? if so are they comfortable here. Are you creative? How do you feel?
Unless we can create an environment where creative people want to stay or come too, we will not make any progress. I will talk more about this but in the interim here are some slides that I have been playing with. It is 4mg in pdf
