This column could have been written about Newfoundland and Labrador.
Could have, but hasn't been. Yet.
So much of what has been going on in this province since 2001 (That's right - Grimes and Williams are on the same wavelength) harkens back to the very darkest days of the 1980s, yet not a single politician seems to be able to break out of the public policy cycle that has held this province back.
In the fishery, the offshore and just about every other sector of the economy, the dominant thinking is the same sort of thing we have tried before with a stunning lack of success.
And, as in Nova Scotia, the young people of Newfoundland and Labrador are packing up and heading to somewhere else.
(h/t tip to nottawa)