Nova Scotia desperately needs more immigrants, but it will have to go along with Ottawa’s vision of immigration to get them. The Nova Scotia government has been lobbying the federal Conservatives to let them bring in more people through its provincial nominee program, but so far the feds have said no. […] Its nominee program is capped at about 500 people per year. Other provinces that started promoting their own programs years earlier and more aggressively are now reaping the benefits. Manitoba’s program is capped at 5,000 — 10 times that of Nova Scotia.
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