Although now that I think of it NS is full of rural or small town white elephants. For example the NS government built a heavy water plant in Cape Breton and spent billions to subsidize Sydney Steel. A large portion of the NS provincial debt traces back to these projects.
$718M highway twinning project through 38 km of woods in rural NS:
https://mobile.twitter.com/BenMacLeo...23712489340928
(Meanwhile the federal government is threatening to pull funding from the city because the province won't pay for transit improvements.)