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Podcast: CBC Newfoundland Morning
Episode: Fewer immigrants coming to NL mean fewer recruits to fill healthcare job vacancies. We heard from the nurses' union
Description: Earlier this week, the federal government announced it's cutting immigration numbers in half. This province welcomed three-thousand newcomers last year. The new total allowed is 15-hundred. 75 percent of them are already living here. The Registered Nurses Union Newfoundland and Labrador is worried about what that will mean for healthcare recruitment. Yvette Coffey is the president of the union.