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Building an economy, one job at a time

by COATES K
Building an economy, one job at a time
Published in August 2019 - Page 27

Piers McDonald – miner, trade unionist, NDP politician, and government leader/premier of the Yukon Territory from 1996 to 2000, and community-focused entrepreneur – has a very practical approach to employment growth and economic development. He favours building an economy “one job at a time,” by focusing on the recruitment of people who want to live and work in the community.

This is not the standard approach to local economic growth, which typically emphasizes either the

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