The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador spent an untold sum on a consultant to develop a so-called youth retention and attraction strategy.
They created a new ministerial title: “Minister Responsible for Youth Engagement.”
The news release has nine paragraphs and no fewer than four media contacts.
The “strategy”, as described by the consultant, consists of four elements.
It took 13 focus groups with young people across the province and in Ottawa and Fort MacMurray to come up with these highly innovative concepts designed to keep young people in the province:
1. Create jobs.
2. Put services in major centres. Like maybe St. John’s, Gander, Grand Falls-Windsor and Corner Brook?
3. Link education to the labour market.
4. Build “an understanding of the benefits of immigration and diversity through public education, community dialogue and strengthened curriculums in the education system.”
The “strategy” document describes this as a “fresh, modern approach.”
At least the current administration is getting faster at peddling someone else’s old ideas in new packages.
In 2007, they unveiled the provincial government’s 2002 waste management strategy.
This took only 18 months.
You could not make this stuff up if you tried.
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