^Bud, if you want to go run on a platform explaining what elements of "our way of life" shouldn't be maintained, I wish you the best of luck.
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Originally Posted by polak
That is the exact problem and we should be diversifying from that instead of throwing even more eggs into that one basket.
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Is anyone suggesting "throwing more eggs" into the basket? My understanding here is everyone's worried that the NDP is going to start tossing the basket around and breaking the eggs that are in there. We need those eggs to survive while we wait for the new goose eggs (or whatever the proper analogy is to alternative revenue sources) to progress to a point where they can supplement the chicken eggs.
Okay this analogy jumped the shark, but the whole argument is really just another appeal to the mysticism of "something different" without a realistic plan for extracting the country from its reliance on resources. Usually this involves some vague, one-sentence commitment to "investing in alternative energy" or "researching other avenues" or "green jobs" or "new techology sectors" or some such nonsense which makes for a nice-sounding soundbite. There is no "there" there, there's no practical solution.