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From: "Holder, Trevor Hon. (PETL/EPFT)" <Trevor.Holder@gnb.ca>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:49:25 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Higgy's political opponents may
enjoy their email over the the Yuletide season N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

 I am curretly out of the office during the holiday season, should you
require immediate assistance, please email Wendy Brewer at
wendy.brewer@gnb.ca.

Season's greetings and best wishes for a health, happy and peaceful New Year.

Je suis actuellement à l'extérieur du bureau pendant la période des
Fêtes. Si vous avez besoin d'une assistance immédiate, veuillez
envoyer un courriel à wendy.brewer@gnb.ca.

Salutations et meilleurs voeux pour une nouvelle année saine, heureuse
et paisible.

Minister/Ministre

Trevor A. Holder


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David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others 
Methinks if the newcomers to New Brunswick bothered to read the comment sections of CBC they would not believe politicians such as Trevor Holder N'esy Pas?
 


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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-population-growth-newcomers-1.5403298

Newcomers fuel largest N.B. population bump in 44 years

People from elsewhere in Canada and world give province largest 6-month increase since 1975

Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Dec 19, 2019 7:19 PM AT



Ilia Reschny and her dog Pecan moved to Saint John from the interior of British Columbia this year. (Robert Jones/CBC)


Ilia Reschny is 21 and in late September decided to pack up her dog, Pecan, and move from the British Columbia interior to New Brunswick, even though to that point she had never been east of Saskatchewan.

"We're not used to seeing the ocean,"said Reschny. "Pecan didn't know what the ocean was when we got here, but everyone's been super nice. I love it so far."

Reschny's mother and her husband had moved to Saint John earlier in the year, attracted by affordable New Brunswick real estate, and so Reschny thought she would try it too.

They're part of a growing number of newcomers fuelling the largest increase in New Brunswick's population in two generations.

"The growth was the strongest since 1975, so in almost 45 years," Statistics Canada demographer Patrick Charbonneau said of the increase in people calling New Brunswick home during the spring and summer.

• Immigration boosts New Brunswick population to record level

• New growth strategy sets target of 7,500 newcomers a year

Driven by the unprecedented arrival of immigrants and a surge of residents moving from other provinces, New Brunswick's population grew by 6,134 between April and September, pushing it to a record 780,021.  

The increase is slightly below the national average but still a remarkable development in New Brunswick, which, as recently as 2007, had been shrinking.

"It's really international migration that is fuelling population growth in New Brunswick," said Charbonneau, noting most provinces are having similar experiences.

"It's really part of a larger trend in Canada," he said.  


J.D. Irving Ltd. has sponsored a number of skilled immigrants to settle in central New Brunswick and work in its Chipman sawmill. A number of companies with operations in rural New Brunswick have recruited internationally for help. (Shane Fowler/CBC)


New Brunswick set a modern record in 2018 by attracting 4,609 immigrants. That's the most since current Statistics Canada records began in 1946, but the province will shatter that number this year. It is already 100 people beyond last year's total, with three months still to be counted.

That is a major change.

Six years ago, the province took in just 2,023 immigrants for the entire year and 20 years ago just 662.

Trevor Holder, the provincial minister in charge of population growth, said Thursday he's encouraged by the new numbers.
 

Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Trevor Holder oversees the province's population growth efforts and says he is pleased with a flood of new residents this year. (Ed Hunter/CBC)


"They represent very positive news for New Brunswick," Holder said in a statement released by his office.

But in addition to immigrants, there are large numbers of people like Reschny moving to the province from other parts of Canada.

During the first nine months of 2019, more than 11,026 people came to New Brunswick from elsewhere in the country, the most for the first nine months of any year since 1986. It was also nearly 1,400 more people than left New Brunswick to settle in other provinces — a net gain that Reschny is now part of.

"It's way more affordable and I do like it," she said.

CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices

 

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Lewis Taylor
Heaven forbid if they are not white anglophones because they will be blamed for everything. 

















Marjorie Austin
They all end up in Ontario. There's no work here and what good work there is is bilingual only. Once the newcomer welfare runs out they leave

Reply to @Marjorie Austin: People who move here from other parts of Canada don`t get so-called "newcomer welfare." Neither do people immigrating from other countries on permanent resident visas, work visas or student visas. The only people who get so-called "newcomer welfare" are refugees.

Marguerite Deschamps

Reply to @Marjorie Austin: I was just waiting for someone to put the usual negative spin. I was not disappointed.

Reply to @Marjorie Austin: too bad the Canadians on welfare won’t leave NB

Reply to @Marjorie Austin: what nonsense. Barely any jobs are listed as bilingual. You are just going for the low hanging fruit while taking no responsibility for your own failures.

David Raymond Amos 

Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks we should not be surprised to see you add your two bits to the circus N'esy Pas?

David Raymond Amos

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Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Howcome you diid not respond to the first dude to comment?

Mac Isaac
A long time ago I was born in Nova Scotia, then I was moved to western Canada, Europe and to New Brunswick where I completed my schooling. After college I had the opportunity to move to Ontario or British Columbia but, by chance I took a short term job with a company that did work in all parts of this province. I was totally blown away by what I saw...the rolling hills, the river valleys, the vast seascapes but most of all the people. Some were French, some First Nations and a lot of English, but most importantly they were all so incredibly honest and open and by the end of that job I had decided that no matter what THIS was my province and since then I have talked very openly about what a great place this is, even when some say derogatory things about the province and its people. I have told friends and family repeatedly about the low cost in relative terms real estate is here and how peaceful and safe its towns and cities are. It's not utopia, I know, but for me and my money it's the single best place I have ever lived and I will not live anywhere else. I welcome those others who come here and see what I saw all those years ago and to the naysayers...good luck wherever you land! 

Marguerite Deschamps

Reply to @Mac Isaac: thank you so much!

Greg Miller

Reply to @Mac Isaac: I say this in all sincerity--you should do a promotional ad for this Province--you obviously feel quite strongly about it. There's a lot of depressing news around here and quite frankly it's often well-earned. However, once in a while there are some bright lights. Thanks!

David Raymond Amos 

Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you know why I agree with the dude about New Brunswick but not everyone is a pleasant as he claims N'esy Pas?

Doug James
And yet, not a penny more for essential healthcare and affordable housing. Indeed, cutbacks are apparently in the offing. Welcome to New Brunswick!

Jim Cyr

Reply to @Doug James: There ain’t no free....

Terry Tibbs

Reply to @Jim Cyr:
Exactly. There ain't no free lunch!
If the government/robber barons intend on gaining from what they see as a "windfall from heaven", then they must increase services/infrastructure a like amount, or it simply won't work. No one will care if there is no ability to pay.

David Raymond Amos  

Reply to @Doug James: What Health Care I have to pay for mine because Higgy's minions STILL won't give me my Medicare Card. Methinks Trevor Holder and Dorthy Shephard everybody else knows why N'esy Pas?