The Federal government has treated Canada's own resource sector like a problem to be managed and not the economic boon it should have been. Canada bled competitiveness over the last decade, while the US and other producers took full advantage of it. Major export projects were stalled, strangled, or scrapped outright and bills C-48 and C-69 injected enough uncertainty to freeze billions in prospective investment. The Americans were busy boosting export capacity, we did f-ck all. You can't win a race when you never leave the starting line.
The CER has pointed out that Canadian O&G investment peaked in 2014 at more than $80 billion USD and has fallen sharply since -- we're talking a 56% drop -- and notes "access to transportation infrastructure is a distinctively Canadian challenge". That's the regulatory version of saying
we couldn't get our product to market even when global demand was begging for it.
Ottawa managed to hit the industry both in what they did and in what they failed to do. Active policy decisions raised costs and slowed development, and passive inaction left critical infrastructure projects grounded, delayed, or politically radioactive. We lost ground because the federal government made it harder to build, harder to invest, and harder to compete.
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Originally Posted by Wolven
Latest video from Avi. 99% populist content but careful, you guys might get triggered because he is advocating for electric cars to be built.
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Corsi's right, how old
are you? Who gives a crap whether he's advocating for electric cars to be built, who has voiced an aversion to that in this thread? No one has brought it up, it's irrelevant to everything everyone has been saying about why Lewis is a bad choice for a party that needs to re-think itself to regain relevance.
But listen, this is your thread so you can do whatever you want with it, including sh-tting in it like this if you're so inclined. Don't let me tell you otherwise.