The drive to attract talent is as strong as the drive to attract their potential employers, especially as rural citizens continue migrating to the larger cities and towns. And when only one percent of Canadian immigrants choose to live in Atlantic Canada, the talent campaign naturally has to be multi-faceted.
      Among the measures coming out of the February 2004 meeting of the Council of Atlantic Premiers in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, was the establishment of a new sub-council on education and training. Technology PEI is well on its way to formulating a training and education strategy for its new media sector. And in May 2004, the federal government pledged nearly CA$2 million toward programs designed to attract more foreign-trained doctors, nurses and professional engineers.
      Concurrent to the Corner Brook meeting was a meeting of the region's four energy ministers. On their agenda was encouragement of federal efforts to place a moratorium on import duties on mobile drilling rigs, and to further explore LNG and CNG (compressed natural gas) as both gas supply and infrastructure development opportunities.