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Originally Posted by disco_inferno
Canada should turn the tap off, build a bunch of refineries, and only sell the oil as a finished product.
We loose so much opportunity by selling raw crude, between the jobs, the capital investment, the markup on the product, its so stupid. As someone in the mining industry, I hope the government declares oil a 'strategic national resource' like they did with potash, and starts to regulate how much gets shipped south a little bit closer.
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This is the thing that gets me. Canada is still stuck in the mentality of being a colony. We supply raw materials for just about every industry to other countries, then they make the products and sell them back to us.
I know a lot of it has to do with other countries being able to produce things more cheaply, but the difference between Canada and the U.S. labour should not be that significant.