Kudos to Choyce

Recently Pottersfield Press released  Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future, a compilation of ideas regarding the future of our province. According to their website, Pottersfield Press hopes that the book “may set in motion some serious action that can help Nova Scotia live up to its full future potential. The writing is personal, reflective, proactive and thoroughly captivating by more than 30 contributors from many diverse fields of expertise.”

Quill & Quire provided a brief article on the book, mentioning that Lesley Choyce (author and publisher) plans to hand-deliver copies of the forward-thinking enterprise to politicians across the province. We think this is a great idea! Though we couldn’t help but notice that ex-Premier Rodney MacDonald is on the list of contributors. Something tells me his vision of the future didn’t include a humiliating defeat and third party status for the Progressive Conservatives in the election last week. Of course, the writers were only asked to describe what they thought Nova Scotia would be like in ten to one thousand years, so what can we really expect?

Whether these writers see a utopia of clean energy, better healthcare and efficient politics or a dystopia of polluted harbours and minority governments, let’s all hope that this book garners more serious attention from our politicians than Yann Martel’s correspondences with Stephen Harper’s communications staff.