Provincial Quotes

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.