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Originally Posted by beyeas
This is true no matter the flavour of government, and likely in large part due to the fact that it is easier to punt a problem onto the government.
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There is the punting aspect but there is also "sexiness" aspect. Cutting the ribbon on a desperately-needed healthcare facility gets a government a lot more credit than gradually performing maintenance in the background. Many of the crises happen because of decades of deferred maintenance.
NS also has the regional jealousy issue that makes it politically difficult to invest too much in one area even if that's the only reasonable course of action (because half of all the people live there and that place is in the middle of the province). In fact in NS it is often politically easiest to counterintuitively invest more in the places that are doing the worst, which probably aren't the places where you can get the biggest economic bang for your investment buck.
HRM does better with this than the province with their capital priority lists, although they are far from perfect. I wonder how much of this has to do with the lack of party politics.