A novel and urgent proposal for region building in Atlantic Canada

Political convenience on really big, important issues is too rare to count on. In Atlantic Canada, premiers share an undeniably genuine desire to improve life in their home provinces, but they also share an equally genuine desire to be re-elected.

In the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, the idea of forming a Maritime union is indeed as old as Canada itself. The Fathers of Confederation hijacked the idea and stretched it west. Now, why can’t the idea be reclaimed, re-engineered and stretched eastward from the Appalachian range into the North Atlantic, asks Jesse Robichaud. Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia

Opinion

BY JESSE ROBICHAUD

May 29, 2017

Sure, it seemed old-fashioned. When Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil visited the province’s lieutenant governor to trigger a May 30 general election earlier this month, he was the last provincial or federal politician in Canada with the power to do so purely on his own accord. As if too much ...

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