🇨🇦 Nova Scotia ranks 59th out of 60 in North America — so naturally, Houston wants to drill

Tim Houston just took over his own energy ministry and hired an efficiency czar to pitch offshore oil, gas, and wind to a world starving for reliable power. Nova Scotia sits on one of the largest undeveloped hydrocarbon basins in the North Atlantic, but decades of bans and moratoriums turned a resource-rich province into the continent's second-worst economic performer. Houston admits the province said no to fishing, mining, and energy until the deficits hit a billion dollars and the culture rotted from the inside.

Meanwhile, Ottawa preaches net-zero while provinces collapse under the weight of climate theology. Houston's trying to rebuild what globalist risk-aversion destroyed: confidence, capital, and the belief that Canadians can actually build something. Rare to see a provincial leader with the spine to say yes to development instead of managed decline.

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