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I'd argue Canada made concerted efforts to support natural resource industries at the cost of all other industries. Eg. expending massive political capital with the US to push for Keystone XL. We've hurt our image abroad by fighting climate change action, Canada even refused to consider asbestos a hazardous material because there's a single asbestos mine in the country. As soon as that mine closed we switched to considering it hazardous. These are short termed, unprincipled policy decisions that help the resource industry at the expense of the Canadian brand.



Canada has been doing that since it's inception... the first industry in this country was natural resources and since that time it has remained our strongest.


"expending massive political capital"

Luckily, political capital is a fiat currency and can be created or destroyed by the CBC in moments.


How many Americans (US + Mexico + South)/Europeans/Asians/Africans watch the CBC? I think the parent was referring to international political capital.


Sorry: I should not have implied that the CBC is the only one with a royal charter for political capital minting/disposal.




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