True, but that 1st wave of resettlement was a half-baked policy.  The best of it was most of those 28,000 people were children who got access to education above the grade school level.  And families who could continue fishing elsewhere did okay.  But to a large extent, people were dumped somewhere else without much thought to how they would make a living.  It's not like the small towns that people were relocated to had a surplus of jobs, and locals understandably resented having a bunch of strangers suddenly after "their" jobs.  A lot of families ended up as a new underclass chronically dependent on welfare.  I'd argue that resettlement gave birth to the 10/42 policy in rural NL with the province funding a lot of make-work projects so people could qualify for unemployment insurance.

And so now, resettlement is more like rescuing old people left behind after people of working age have already left.  They let communities die a natural death and pick up the pieces.