P.E.I. to take steps to boost population, ‘help newcomers feel at home’
CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island — Canada’s smallest but fastest-growing province — is promising measures to get more immigrants to come, and stay.
The Island’s population topped 152,000 this year, and the government has set the goal of reaching 160,000 by 2022.
“My government has set ambitious targets for near and long-term population growth,” the government said in its throne speech, read by Lt.-Gov. Antoinette Perry Tuesday as she opened the fall session of the legislature.
“In the coming year, my government will take further steps to maximize retention rates for new immigrants.”