This editorial (floating around as a newsstory) on Thomas Mulcair really got to me.
Now, I’m not saying that I agree 100% with Mulcair’s tactics, but I
think he’s raising some good points. In
a bad way. If I had to summarize:
I think what he is saying is that the “success” of the West is coming at the expense of the rest of Canada. A small percentage of people and companies are profiting on Natural Resources. And this is causing problems:
1) The High Dollar that this causes prevents the manufacturing sector
from thriving.
2) We’re taking short term profits at the expense of a long-term
strategy.
3) The majority of these profits are being realized by International
corporations with no real interest in Canada.
And I think there are some very valid
points here.
Now we get in to the article, which really
just picks on semantics and throws a couple of statistics in to play. There is no real substance.
But what really starts to get to me is in
the comments. There are all sorts of
comments along the lines of “He just can’t deal with the success of the West.” And that really bothers me.
I will admit that I get riled up to unreasonable
levels when “the West” starts talking about their “success” and laying claim to
all of the benefits of resources.
Really? Success is defined as
being amazingly lucky that you happened to build your houses on top of a large
field of oil? And your Provincial rights
trump those of the rest of Canada? And anybody that feels we should manage these
resources more smartly, extract them in a somewhat sustainable fashion and
funnel the profits back in to Canada
is a Communist? And they’re “your”
resources but nobody has a right to question burying pipelines through every
other Province? It’s crazy.
My experiment with reading the National
Post has left me scared and a little bit angry.
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