What pull factors are likely to help the city of Sault Ste. Marie attract people from other parts of Ontario and Canada to help boost its population base in the next 10 years?

What pull factors are likely to help the city of Sault Ste. Marie attract people from other parts of Ontario and Canada to help boost its population base in the next 10 years?

Introduction

The City of Sault Ste. Marie has now become a community which is sustaining a small urban population and ensures that people enjoy a favorable environment with various opportunities. With the developmental efforts, the City is now focused towards settlement opportunities where people can be attracted from different regions and are able to settle down comfortable with all the means at their end. This mission has been made possible by the involvement of various dedicated stakeholders to provide inputs and come up with constructive plans. The following paper discusses what factors can help the City to attract more people and increase its population by the next decade and also identifies the impact of intraregional and interregional migration on the city.

Discussion

Settlement

Canada has seen tremendous growth and has hit many targets with inflation under control and good employment rates and has continued to meet the expectation of the people. The GDP of the country has grown by 68% as of 2003. Canada has been gradually becoming a part of the global economy and has attracted exports and investments (Eup Regional Planning & Development Commission, 2012). The west accounts prosperity and growth to be associated with the settlement of the immigrants who have established different communities. The Italian community with the influx of the foreigners has been able to increase its population from 500 to 4,425 in ten years and then it rose to 10,000 in the next decade. There were various resourceful towns discovered by the Italians such as the Sault Ste. Marie City in Ontario (www.multiculturalcanada.ca). There was a series of chain migrations in which many post-war immigrants settled in the City and was considered a city to be rich in ethnic groups (Eup Regional Planning & Development Commission, 2012). Italians played a significant role in opening up the gates of a new settled country. However, the city has suffered huge layoffs by various principal employers. With the young blood migrating o the South to find work, Sault is faced with a dilemma.

Pull factors in migration

Push factors define the reasons because of which migrants drive to different countries other than their origin and pull factors define where these travelers end up settling at. The receiving aspects attract more migrants; same is the case with Sault St. Marie which has been designing ways to attract more immigrants and has been taking measures to expand the economy and population base in the next ten years. Several attempts include providing:

Better standards of living

With economic development and concerns over migrant settlement has attracted many immigrants. Economy is providing ways to settle the migrants and provide them with high ...