Census 2016: Ontario growth still slowing, but experts see a change in fortunes
TORONTO — After he graduated in 2011, mechanical engineer David Momoh did what countless others in Ontario had done before him: he looked west, to the land of oil and opportunity.
Then boom turned to bust.
Ontario was still struggling to recover from the recession when Momoh and his cohort fled the province for a piece of the action in Alberta’s latest oil-fuelled heyday. He found work almost immediately.
“My first job interview with a company in Alberta, he literally said, ‘If you give me one week I’ll have a job offer for you,’ and the second interview they gave me a job,” Momoh recalled recently from his home in Toronto.