'We need to wake up': Atlantic Canada a microcosm of the problems facing the...

Atlantic Canada may have mostly avoided the worst of the 2008 financial crisis and doesn’t have the big industries that Ontario or Western Canada rely on, but its productivity has fallen for four consecutive years and now trails the national average by roughly 25 per cent.
Part of the reason for that is that decades of protective isolation are evaporating as sagging productivity, trade volatility and artificial intelligence disrupt the status quo, says Nova Scotia billionaire John Risley, who warns the region h