There is no doubt that New Brunswick is a hard place to run an eLearning company. In earlier times NB's close proximity to the US and low exchange rates coupled with the support of McKennna's government made eLearning a viable industry. Nowadays India continues to lead the way for outsourcing for the production of eLearning content, the Canadian dollar now longer holds any advantage and the new liberal government has yet to decide if the eLearning industry is one they will continue to support. The industry group LearnNB and the continued presence of SkillSoft, the industry's global leader, are likely the only remaining bastions (maybe Innovatia). NRC is pretty much out of the space and the market consolidation continues (SkillSoft in the process of acquiring Thomson NETg and NIIT having acquired Element K). That said, New Brunswick still has an opportunity to band together and become a strategic supplier. The challenges the eLearning industry faces in NB are but a subset of the overall challenges the province faces as it struggles to find relevance in the new Canada/world order (declining population and dwindling revenue base being two key issues).

(I still wish that New Brunswick had made a play to get Google to put their massive new data center here as NB has lots of land and energy sources.)