Atlantic Canadians think of the West a lot. The West employs hundreds of thousands, particularly our vigorous young people who've now put down roots in the oilfields. Historically, when fishes left our shores the prairie harvests were magnets of employment, and when times were bad in the West, from droughts and Depression, Maritimers sent relief and food gratis. This was reciprocated 50 years ago by Saskatchewan farmers, for fishing communities enduring hard times. Thinking of others is an elemental expression of humanity.