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  • About this report
  • About NouLAB
  • Facilitation Team
    • Year 1 and 2
    • Year 3
  • Social Innovation Labs
    • What is a Social Innovation Lab
    • How does it work?
      • Labs have 4 primary outputs
      • Who should participate?
    • When is a Lab the right tool?
  • Economic Immigration Lab
    • The Why
    • The Context
    • EIL Timeline
      • Birth of a lab: January - March 2017
      • Birth of a lab: Leadership Council
      • Prep for year 1: March - August 2017
      • Lab cycle 1: September - December 2017
      • Year 2
      • Year 3
      • Post Lab
    • Reports
  • Prototypes
    • Description of prototypes
    • 2017
      • Capacity for Courage
      • Employer to Employee Connections
      • Community Engagement Program and Toolkit
      • Match NB
      • Newcomer to Influencer
      • Les Connecteurs
      • Destination NB
      • Business Council for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
    • 2018
      • Internationally Educated Nurses
      • Employer Process Team
      • Diversity Champions
      • Système Éducatif
    • 2019
      • Rural Immigration Support
      • Foreign Credential Recognition
      • Technology Action Group (TAG)
  • Evaluation of Lab Objectives
    • List of objectives
    • 50+ Stakeholders engaged at the grassroots
    • Improved understanding of the newcomer & employer experience
    • 3 - 5 prototype teams testing & learning from prototypes
    • Learning that is scaleable to other communities
    • Identification of leverage points for action
    • Build capacity for innovation
  • Stories of Impact
    • Introduction
    • Participant stories
  • Supporting Organizations
    • Leadership Council
    • Lab cycle 1: Participating Organizations
    • Lab cycle 2: Participating Organizations
    • Lab cycle 3: Participating Organizations
  • Theory of Change and Key Elements
    • Theory of Change
    • Key Elements for an effective lab
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  1. Economic Immigration Lab

The Why

Why have a Social Innovation Lab focused on Economic Immigration in New Brunswick?

New Brunswick is at a crossroads. This may sound like a tired cliché, but it is true nonetheless. In fact, the next five years could well be the most important in at least a half century. What we will do, or fail to do, over that period could have a decisive impact for decades to come. - Richard Saillant

The challenges facing New Brunswick’s economy are multifaceted and complex. According to New Brunswick’s former chief economist, David Campbell, the province’s declining population is the biggest public policy challenge of our time. The labour market is in structural decline and there is a dire need for workers to grow existing businesses. The combined out-migration of working-age New Brunswickers with a higher than national average median age is putting serious pressure on the labour market’s ability to supply workers to grow and support business in the province.

It is clear that traditional methods of attracting and retaining workers and their families to NB are not working and systemic barriers hinder current immigration efforts. These challenges called for a new approach to immigration and to growing NB’s economy.

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