This province has tons of potential. It’s being wasted by the inept governments that keep getting put in charge. Nova Scotia is one of the poorest provinces in Canada, and it’s not going to get any better with McNeil in power. We are taxed heavily despite having low wages, the youth find better paying jobs in a recession province like Alberta, and the seniors are being treated like SHIT. How in the world can we live in 2017 and not have enough doctors for people? What is this, the stone ages? Seriously. McNeil is AWFUL. However, the ones to blame are you. You probably bitch, you moan, you complain—yet did you vote in the last election? His approval rating is around 30 percent, the last election had an all-time low turnout—that says it all. It says it all. This province is going to keep going down the dumps.
It’s sad.
Nova Scotia has so much potential. It has a lot you can exploit and create lots of revenue from. From natural resources, to a humongous Halifax Harbour on top of a big natural harbour in Shelburne, to its attractive geographical position, and many more things. Yet here’s big oligarchy corporations pinching pennies—hiring foreign workers to save money and slave them to death because they don’t want to spend extra money to hire CANADIAN WORKERS. Listen, I like diversity, but there’s a difference between being diverse and penny pinching to make foreigners slave so Irving can take a swim in their billions. These temp agencies, which are common all over the world, make life hell for people. They steal your money, they leave you hanging, and some of the workers treat you like you’re a pile of trash. So much for trying to make Nova Scotia friendly.
Also, what the hell is wrong with the transportation system? It costs you an arm and a leg to go to the South Shore, to the Eastern Shore, to the valley, to Cape Breton, and to the beautiful Northumberland Strait. We need an effective transportation system in this province. We have LOTS of train tracks sitting on the ground, and rotting away because nobody wants to use them for anything. Imagine a passenger train system from Halifax to Sydney, or Halifax to Yarmouth, or Halifax to Windsor, etc. I guarantee you that you can get lots of people on those trains. I know people in the Valley drive into work every day, and they take a lot of time to do so. If they took a train, that travelling will be cut in half, and they’d be saving lots of money.
Nova Scotia. It has potential. It can be great. But it isn’t. And it’s shit. Thanks, politicians. —Disgruntled Person in NS
This article appears in Jul 6-12, 2017.
I recommend you do a little research before you insult the people of Nova Scotia:
1) There are six other provinces with a GDP lower than Nova Scotia’s
2) Nova Scotia’s tax rate is the same as four other provinces
3) Our minimum wage is the same as British Columbia’s
4) We have one of the highest ratios of physicians per capita in the country
If you don’t like it here, leave. Please
@TheOtherSafetyGuy. Maybe you should do your research, youre embarrassing yourself. NS has the highest tax rates of all provinces. http://www.taxtips.ca/marginaltaxrates.htm
@TheOtherSafetyGuy, youre wrong about NS having the same tax rate as other provinces. You should do proper research as well. <3
1) so what?
2) the same HIGH rate as 4 other provinces
3) we don’t measure success by minimum wage rates
4) we also have the highest ratio of old people
So what’s your point? The status quo is just great? Progress is stupid? We should eat the “member berries” and open up old coal mines and start burning tires?
I think the point, as far as I could tell, is the dysfunction of the provincial government. I would disagree that it’s entirely the fault of the elected officials; but instead in the lack of execution in the public sector. We have a huge and very dysfunctional public sector, and it’s out of whack for the size of the population http://etatscanadiens-canadiangovernments.enap.ca/en/nav.aspx?sortcode=2.0.2.0
Paying for this lack of performance is expensive, and is reflected directly in our taxes.
Transit is a challenge, but trains don’t pay for themselves in the Montreal-Toronto route, so they surely don’t in the Halifax-Yarmouth route. Contracting private citizens for running on-demand transit seems to work with the shuttles moving around.
Nova Scotia, its political structure, its bureaucracy, the economy, the education system and its health care ALL need to be overhauled. Not tweaked or fixed…overhauled. Eliminate the duplication of administration and management, the high taxes, the imbalance of electoral representation, the low productivity ( GDP), reliance on the social service sector over entrepreneurship, the overwhelming red tape……..all fixable. It only takes a “CAN DO” attitude and leadership. Both of which are lacking……..