“How long are you in Canada for?” Honestly, I kid you not. That exact question was asked of me while I was on a student exchange trip in rural Manitoba.

The Chairman, CEO, and Co-founder of Corporate Research Associates (CRA), a well known polling company in this country, was in this province talking to the St. John’s Board of Trade. Don Mills said he was here “taking the pulse” of rural Newfoundland and Labrador. Well, he managed to find a