I'm a maritimer and we are responsible for those governments in my opinion. There is a nativist and independent streak here, but it's buried under a culture of poverty and handouts. It's more financially rewarding for use to take money from the government than to have our own industry. The transfer payments rot us from the inside. If we had to pay our own way, we would see that our interests are as different from central Canada's as they are from the prairies or the West coast.