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Originally Posted by Johnny199r
Every place in the world talks about diversification of their economy as the answer to their problem. But when asked for conrete realistic examples of what that actually means, the answers are general as hell.
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The reality is you can't force an industry to thrive, when governments try they end up screwing things up royally, what governments can and should do is create a lot of training opportunities and tax breaks for start ups.
B.C. kind of fell arse backwards into the film industry and tech start ups which in the last twenty odd years have reduced dependence on forestry to a degree.
When I got here in '85 a drop in the price of lumber was a disaster and made front page headlines here, these days it's barely noticed outside of the interior.
I think the important thing for a government to do is not try and invent a sector, but see what develops organically and encourage it with education programs etc.