Tag Archives: rural development

Member’s Statement – School closures and Rural Development

Mr. Speaker, it has been decades since any government has had staff dedicated to promoting rural development.  In fact rural community development has not been among government priorities since the 1980s.  The decline in student numbers in rural schools should be seen as an opportunity to strengthen rural communities by utilizing them to provide child care, senior care, early childhood […]

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Member’s Statement: Urban and Rural Development

Mr. Speaker, the three largest metropolitan areas in New Brunswick now contain more than half of the province’s population. Mr. Speaker, if we are committed to advancing the development of our province, we must develop supportive public policies for both metropolitan and truly rural regions.  This would be helped by a reorganization of government departments to create the institutional capacity […]

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