Rural Canada: challenges and opportunities
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Rural Canada presents new opportunities for productive policy investments. Urbanization, international trade, immigration, environmental stress, and past political agendas have created a legacy of significant change to the organization of rural society – often creating hardship and anxiety as livelihoods are undermined and traditional support networks prove inadequate. But these changes have also opened new opportunities for reversing those misfortunes on behalf of all Canadians. Policy adjustments are needed to build and exploit those opportunities.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011