N. S. voters elect 1st NDP government

So the province of Nova Scotia here in Canada, voted, for the first time in history for an NDP government - and a whopping majority at that too!

This is the first time that a government East of Ontario has voted in the NDP!

Alexa McDonagh would be so proud!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nsvotes2009/story/2009/06/09/nsvotes-main.html

:cheers2:

 

Hope it goes better than Rae in Ontario in 1990, another NDP government winning power in an economic downturn. Disastrous.

 

Nova Scotia's economy is based on fishing, agriculture and mining. They'd be major fuckups if the NDP screwed those footholds up.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia#Economy

You opinion of Nova Scotia's economy is yesterday.

"The collapse of the cod stocks and the closure of this sector resulted in a loss of approximately 20,000 jobs in 1992.[13] Per capita GDP in 2005 was $31,344,[14] lower than the national average per capita GDP of $34,273 and less than half that of Canada's richest province, Alberta."

"Small business makes up 92.2% of the provincial economy."

 

Hahaha. You forgot to include this:

"Mining, especially of gypsum, salt and barite, is also a significant sector. Since 1991, offshore oil and gas has become an increasingly important part of the economy. Agriculture remains an important sector in the province. In the central part of Nova Scotia, lumber and paper industries are responsible for much of the employment opportunities. Nova Scotia’s defence and aerospace sector generates approximately $500 million in revenues and contributes about $1.5 billion to the provincial economy annually.[16] Nova Scotia has the fourth-largest film industry in Canada hosting over 100 productions yearly, more than half of which are the products of international film and television producers.[17]"

 

Yeah I did. I didnt need the rest to prove you opinion on what the economy was based on, to be wrong. But thanks for posting more things that show you are wrong....keep it up.

"Small business makes up 92.2% of the provincial economy."

 

Yes but a good deal of that small business can be the result of other activities such as mining, fishing, lumber and agriculture

 

or greed or capitalism. either way....small business is the base.

 

*rolls eyes*

 

If you dont like the truth dont be here.

 

*rolls eyes*

 

Moderate your own posts Aris, if you cant take it get out.

im serious too, you mod my retorts like this and im going to be all over you.

so again... You want to be a dick about this, come on.

Small Business is an INDUSTRY. It is the BASE of the Nova Scotia economy. Fishing is dead and tech and tourism is booming.

now if you want to get stupid and talk about the root of the small business base, where do you stop ? you stop with the global economy...dont you.. so any argue about lumber and other things are poinless. totaly fucking pointless.

 

*yawns*

 

Youre nothing but a lamer eh Aris.

 

*farts*

 

With no imagination. Pathetic. So is this what I should expect from you ? To delete posts the call you out to defend your opinions ? hmm. Is this how you win a argument ?

 

Wow. Just wow. Like a bull in a china shop, eh?

That source isn't even from any type of verifiable statistic. It was taken from a "Immigrate to Canada" pamphlet from the UK by a private company.

At any rate, owning your own farm is considered owning yourself a small business. Same with logging, fishing, hunting, etc.

40% of people who live in Nova Scotia, live in Halifax. That's almost half of the population on the island that live in 1 city. Of course there's a large industry influx of businesses in that concentrated area. It's like comparing the economy of Toronto to the rest of Ontario - it's not the median or staple sector of the economy - and you can't lump "small business" as an entire industry when that fuckin' includes the very industries like agriculture, fishing, and mining that I was talking about.

What the hell is your point besides to bully me into a pointless argument with you?

Grow up and stop insulting people who are here for cordial debate.

 

Everyone knows small business is a fiscal sector in itself, the economies of most western countries are service/small business oriented. But you fail to grasp the larger picture of economics on how small businesses can be directly related and dependent on a number of small but in practice very large part of the economy. Most of the small businesses in Nova Soctia have over the decades been built up around the forest/mining/fishing sectors of the economy. Not to mention when it comes to a good deal of those jobs, especially in the forestry sector, most of the jobs are done by, hey guess what, small business.

Let's look at a production chain, let's take the forest. First you need small businesses to cut down the trees, then those trees have to be transported on trucks, then sent to paper mills/saw mills, then those are sent to wherever wood is needed, say it's sent to a place where furniture is made, then that furniture is sent to a store that sells furniture, then finally people buy said furniture. Now repeat this with anything that has to do with fishing, and then add in agriculture, then add in mining, the chain of command in mining is smaller but they're like the auto industry, good paying jobs where those people and their checks prop up the towns around them.

Now do you see the chain on why these are actually big parts of the economy?

 

european cannot see the forest for the trees, I'm afraid.

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