Well their problems aren't as simple as voting in idiots, although they do have a knack of doing that, especially in NFLD.
But in the second half of Ralph's term I'd say he was an idiot to. But what do you do, vote in a liberal.
The biggest problem in the Maritimes is that their traditional industries are dead. They've died in the last 20 years not not much has replaced it.
They don't have the second largest commercially viable oil reserve on earth, like Alberta has, they have a bit of nat gas and liquids, but it is off shore, costly to produce, expensive to deliver to markets and so far production has been less than exciting, especially for NS. The problem isn't that they suck and that they are stupid, it is that they get hand outs so why move? Why not just take pogey checks for a good part of the year and gravy train the west if they can't find a good job or the area can't develop industry. The problem is that Ottawa has created a system that rewards underutilization.
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