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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Second, Canadians lack the killer instinct the rest of the world has. We're like the middle child of a rich parent. We assume we're going to be taken care of because we're agreeable and because we have only known wealth in our lives. There is no doubt that fossil fuels will be phased out. It might be 10 years, it might be 100 years. Every single other producing nation is going to be trying to squeeze every last penny out of this, from the US, to Norway to Saudi and everyone in between. They also smell weakness, so they pick on Canada to camouflage their own efforts. Meanwhile, we are being "good citizens of the world" and refusing to support an income stream necessary to help us pay for the oncoming demographic nightmare when the baby boomers retire and die out with insufficient wealth to support their retirement. We also lack the motivation to fix what is now an insurmountable task to build projects. The quest for consensus and reconciliation means a lot of people's livelihoods (including FNs) are at risk now, and it didn't have to be this way.
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This a million times over. The heart of this issue is that most people in Canada are too comfortable and live decent first world lives that when items like this come up they too easily shrug their shoulders and accept bad long term economic policy in exchange for 'de jour' platitudes and sentiment. We take prosperity for granted, largely because for the most part intra-generationally we didn't earn it as it was endowed upon us through plentiful natural resources and favored location adjacent to the world's largest economy. Trudeau 6 years ago said that he hoped that Canadians should be known for their 'Resourcefulness' rather than simply for their resources. Well by turning up our nose at our own resource endowment the younger generations are going to learn first hand what having to compete with the rest of the world without a leg up really means and we won't fair well, because there's an ingrained mediocrity in our business culture.
Canada personified is like that person at work that would rather be liked than successful and makes decisions through that lens.