A billboard-size highway sign that highlights the province's rich Mi'kmaq heritage stands along the Trans-Canada Highway near Amherst, N.S. on January 14, 2019. RCMP are asking for the public's help as they investigate the defacing of a Nova Scotia highway sign that welcomes people to the land of the Mi'kmaq. The words "N.S. needs mills" were spray-painted on the sign located on the Trans Canada Highway near Amherst, N.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan