Express criticism of a meeting discussing the economy of Atlantic Canada and the lack of positive change in the region.
This is a pathetic, ridiculous joke:  a cover  for pork barreling and nothing else.  They have been meeting to discuss this subject since Confederation.  What has changed?  Absolutely nothing positive.  The economy of Atlantic Canada is still a basket case, even after the windfall oil and gas revenue, and it consists for the most part of receiving federal transfer payments in one guise or another (EI rules being one subterfuge example).