While there are many organizations doing good work helping immigrants adapt to life in our city, there is little overall coordination of this effort or a focal point for leadership. We believe strongly in making Halifax a great place to live for our residents and potential residents. This includes creating opportunities to include, engage, share and understand, creating more opportunities to celebrate inter-culturalism, as well as supporting and empowering cultural diversity. Specifically, we encourage outreach to disadvantaged communities to address systemic issues such an unemployment, poverty and low education.
To this end, we advocate the development of an integrated intercultural strategy focused on the attraction and, more importantly, the retention of immigrants to our community, while proactively addressing the issues faced by disadvantaged groups within our community. We believe that an intercultural strategy must be developed to integrate the efforts of various organizations operating in this realm in our community that includes focused leadership, coordination of effort and meaningful measures of success.