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Atlantic Canada: The Constitutional Offshore Regime, John Mcevoy

Dalhousie Law Journal

While it is a truism that people shape resources, it is equally true that resources shape people. This is so not only in terms of the individual but also of his society. Resources are the foundation of economic development - upon them turn such diverse questions as where a population will settle and the level of education required of that population for the harvesting of the resource. The regions of Canada are not diversified as much by strict cultural populations as with the resources which have shaped the regional populations. To date, the Atlantic provinces have seemingly been by-passed from …