A Sustainable, Inclusive and Digital Future for Rural Canada

Springboard’s Jamie Van Ymeren, along with Matthew Mendelsohn and Mike Moffat on opportunties for rural economic development, writing for Canada 2020

The pandemic has revealed many challenges and opportunities for communities across Canada, and these will require different kinds of responses in smaller communities than in large cities.

For too long, many economic and community development programs that focused on rural Canada were designed specifically to address perceived shortcomings within smaller communities in the context of ongoing urbanization and concentrated economic growth in large cites like Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.