The Proponent utilizes an 'optimistic growth scenario' based on the Ontario historical average (1.16%) for Ignace and Kenora CD, despite the text acknowledging a historical annual decline of -1.56% and a 53% drop in youth population in Ignace. Challenge this methodology and request a socio-economic impact assessment based on a 'Labour Shortage' scenario.
Strategic Rationale
"Using a provincial growth average for a remote region with a shrinking, aging population creates a false premise of local workforce availability. This over-optimism risks masking the reality that the project will likely require a massive influx of transient/temporary workers to fill jobs. A transient workforce presents different social risks (housing pressure, safety) than a resident workforce. Melgund needs a realistic assessment of how a 'shadow population' of non-resident workers will impact the safety and well-being of the unorganized territories."
Source Context
Understanding the Impacts of Nuclear Waste on our Community
This digital archive houses the public comments submitted to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada regarding Project 88774: The Nuclear Waste Management Organization Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project. The impact assessment is led jointly by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. This archive preserves community perspectives, concerns, and observations shared during the assessment process, particularly in relation to Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario and the communities of Dyment and Borups Corners who are the closest and most impacted of all in the process.