Sustaining Saskatchewan’s Grow: Attitude is Everything
The third session was a look at Saskatchewan's attitude. It is about mindset and it includes our town and area. If you have a question, or a comment, email me.
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85% believe provincial future is bright
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87% believe personal future is bright
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80% believe we all gain when businesses do
better
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A resurgence of pioneering attitudes
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Attitudes shaped: pioneers vs post great
depression
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The pioneering value is returning but reset
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Why change in attitudes?
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Buoyant economic times
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Growth due to exports
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4th largest exporter in Canada up 2.5
times
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Population growth linked to commodity demands
growing (super cycle)
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Pop growth mainly linked around Saskatoon and
Regina
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60% of pop in largest 8 cities (critical to
province as well)
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International immigration has increased
dramatically – 1% in province but 2% in Saskatoon and Regina
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Immigrants attracted to larger centres
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Need service industries
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Oil and gas and mining are dependent upon cities
and not local communities
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Incomes have gone up
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Employment growth
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Rural and urban growth needs to occur - both
need success
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Value added production is needed
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SK has had higher relative GDP growth but the population
in Alberta grew due to value added and business services
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Importance of Regional Cooperation
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Sustained growth is not guaranteed
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Cities of 500,000 have not had out migration –
cities become their own engines
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We need larger cities as a province (West Central
SK needs Kindersley to be larger)
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Business leaders see four challenges
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Lack of skilled workers
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Rising Cost of living and doing business
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Infrastructure
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Improve and evolve the policy environment
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Professionals want larger centres with cache
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Need to be aggressive to grow – fight the previous
image and a need to rebrand
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The province needs to think of itself as a
community as Saskatoon and Regina grow
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