Communities are in charge of selecting and endorsing applicants for permanent citizenship. Towns collaborated with neighbourhood economic development agencies to create an application that showed how they satisfied the requirements listed above. The Atlantic Growth Strategy included the start of the Atlantic Immigration Pilot in March 2017. Since then, it has been an ongoing practice. Over four million Canadians work in rural areas, which contribute nearly 30% of the country's Revenue. Rural Canada supports the industries that support Canada's thriving economy by providing food, water, and energy to metropolitan areas. The number of prospective workers fell by 23% between 2001 and 2016, while the number of potential retirees rose by 40%.