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Tim Houston: Nova Scotia has immense economic potential. Here’s how we can unlock it

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From defence to energy to a highly-skilled workforce, Nova Scotia has everything it needs to unleash its economy. But we can’t afford to wait any longer

Op-ed by Tim Houston

In 2014, a columnist at the Halifax Chronicle Herald noted the following: “A Montreal shipyard produced a 9,000 tonne merchant ship, from start to finish, in 58 days in the middle of the Second World War. Today, we could not organize public hearings in 58 days.”

Twelve years later, has anything improved in our country?

The honest answer is: not enough. But it’s coming. It has to.