As much as I agree with the statement, with respect to the province as a whole, it's the kind of thing that is totally meaningless to the people here who are currently struggling worse than many of them ever have. The idea that communities will be more sustainable long term, or that the province will reap benefits from a larger tax base, really does nothing to help people who are in crisis right now.
And a major cause of that state of crisis is the population boom that we were in no way prepared for, and the province, under Premier Houston, has done next to nothing to help alleviate the blow from it.