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Originally Posted by RyeJay
NB sucks on Ottawa's tit just as hard.
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There are a bunch of relevant points here. First off, yes, NB has plenty of government jobs. Moncton has one of the highest concentrations of federal workers in Canada for example, and the biggest employer there, unsurprisingly, is the hospital.
The next point is that government jobs are not necessarily bad or wasteful. If you want to have a good standard of living you need hospitals and universities and some military, and there are public-sector workers in the health care industry that do the same job that private-sector workers would do in the US.
Finally, I would bet that Halifax has more private-sector economic activity than any other town in the region. The banks, insurance companies (Manulife, Admiral Insurance from the UK), aerospace and transportation sector, high-tech companies like RIM, IBM, and Keane employ thousands of people.