Can Newfoundland and Labrador attract immigrants if they don’t feel welcome?

To fight economic decline and grow its population, Newfoundland and Labrador has to open its doors wide, welcome those from abroad, and offer them opportunity.

Newfoundland Premier Dwight Ball, pictured meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April. The province's plan for 1,700 immigrants per year is a pittance compared to the national goal of 350,000, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

August 7, 2019

ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—When I lived in Newfoundland in the early 1980s, a man named Peter Fenwick was the leader of the provincial NDP. Born in Ontario, he moved to Newfoundland and Labrador in 1968. More than a decade later, he tested the political waters. Although he was eventually elected, wheneve...

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