摘要：Students of Canadian political economy have tended largely to overlook the Maritimes in their accounts of "national" economic and political development. It seems fair to say that the story of the region's rise and decline has been assumed to be of even less theoretical significance in the understanding of Canadian development than the region's plight is felt to be of national concern or importance. Thus it was probably with some surprise that most scholars of "national" focus received the presentation at the 1979 meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, of Sacouman's paper arguing for the centrality of the Maritimes in the examination and explication of Canadian development as a whole.
