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Vancouver Island / Coast

Future Outlook: Tourism, logging, forest products manufacturing, commercial fishing, aquaculture, public administration, education services, information technology. Several planned utility projects are helping increase labour demand in the region, with 152,600 job openings expected over next 10 years.

 

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