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Originally Posted by someone123
In my opinion this kind of attitude is the wrongheaded one. People often shrug off increased travel times that are very significant. It's not just 2 hours, it's 2 hours on thousands of trips per year and millions of trips over the lifetime of the highway. Saint John could be 10 hours from Toronto but it's 13 hours because of indirect highway connections. This matters for commerce and industry, and for people deciding where to visit or live or study.
Better projects like...? The Maritimes have spent a lot more money on corporate welfare and other dubious economic development schemes in dying rural and industrial areas. Sydney Steel alone soaked up the equivalent of about $5B in subsidies in today's dollars. The region should instead focus on keeping taxes low and building great infrastructure.
NB has bad provincial finances right now but NS and PEI don't. The population in the Maritimes grew by 15,000 last year. The region isn't broke or going through a demographic apocalypse. It needs to invest in better infrastructure to improve its economy though.
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Where do you live? Ive lived in NB for 37 years. Its broke. Has been for a long while. We’ve spent billions on infrastructure so people can pass through the province without spending a cent! And who footed the bill for that?? Myself and every other tax paying resident of the province. And how is the NB economy doing right now?? Come on sir. It is that liberal spending what we dont have attitude that has got the province in the situation it is in currently and handing out a few billion more to Maine isnt going to be popular at all. In my opinion your way of thinking is the wrong headed one lol. But its ok to respectfully disagree