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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
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.
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I always love your stuff Cowboy89.
I've heard this exact argument posed for other resource based nations. It always makes me think about economies like New Zealand, Singapore and Israel. They do quite well without natural resources. Canada has a lot of advantages. I don't see people rolling over if we didn't export resources anymore (in an extreme scenario), the brightest minds in the country would just develop other industries, like those smaller economies I mentioned.
Canadians are tougher and more respected than people that live in Canada give them credit for.