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Economic development and tourism
Building the North
A downtown worth the trip, care close to home, a degree without leaving and reasons to love winter.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
The problem
What residents describe today.
More families are putting down roots in Wood Buffalo. They need reasons to stay: services, learning and things to do.
Evidence
This page joins four ideas: downtown, health care, learning and winter tourism. Each has its own page and its own survey, and each has to be tested on its own.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- Four chapters planned together: a downtown for everyone, health care closer to home, a university path, and winter tourism.
- Each chapter has its own page, with a survey.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- Which of the four ideas, if any, deserve assessment first.
- Next step to test it
- Read the four pages and answer their surveys. The totals show which ideas people care about most.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
Video
Video in preparation
The video is being re-cut before publication.
Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
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