It's a huge question and the Provincial Growth Secretariat wants your ideas on how to fix it.
Over the last twenty years, 50,000 youth between the ages of 15 and 34 have left the province combined with 40,000 New Brunswickers turning 65.
Lisa Hrabluk of wickedideas.ca tells Tide News we need to examine if it easy enough to accomplish what you need to do here.
She says we definitely need a more diversified economy adding the Energy East pipeline will create a lot of jobs but they are a very specific type of job.
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