atlantic canada

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Low levels of economic freedom chasing young people away from Atlantic Canada

The region has the largest share of seniors as a portion of the population in the country.


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Atlantic provinces addiction to big government suppresses economic growth

Sweden compensates for its big government with an open free-market economy and business-friendly laws.


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New Brunswick’s waning economic freedom part of region-wide crisis

In 2019, government spending equaled a remarkable 55 per cent of Atlantic Canada's economy.


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Over fifty years, observers have become inured to troubling reports of Atlantic Canada's economic difficulties.

Even the most jaundiced observer would recognize, however, that data for the last two years describes something different. The regional economy is not experiencing continued slow decline: it is starting to implode.