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Originally Posted by someone123
Maybe but it's true that there's some stuff Atlantic Canada doesn't have at all because it has no major metropolitan area and Halifax is really the only place on its way to that kind of scale, plus it already offers a bunch of unique amenities to the region.
I don't think the Brier Island fisherman example is a good one. Rural NS is pretty heavily subsidized and the more Halifax grows the less of a burden that becomes. It is true that provincial revenues don't benefit people in NB or PEI.
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I'd almost flip it around and say that I don't think most people (not the OP to be clear) appreciate just how much of the region's economy is driven by cities AND the towns/suburbs within a reasonable drive. Halifax and the towns/counties within an hour's drive (Bridgewater, Kentville, Truro) compose over two thirds of the provincial population and 72% of the jobs. I'm pretty sure you could do similar math for the Fredericton-Moncton-Saint John triangle.