Community Perspectives
Premier’s LNG Working Group
July 3-4, 2014
Marleen Morris and Greg Halseth Co-Directors
Community Development Institute, UNBC
Non-Metropolitan BC Today
• On the cusp of the most significant transformation of communities and economies since the 1950s
• Significant private sector investment
~$70 billion in potential resource projects over next 10 years
• Challenge: to leverage investment to
create the next ‘long boom’
Demographic Transformation
Aging baby boom population
Historic youth out-migration
Shortage of local replacement workers
Increasing Aboriginal labour force size
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0-4
5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-74 75+
% of total pop
Quesnel - 1981
Female Male