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Originally Posted by meme405
I find it comical that the platform of the green party recognizes that refining fossil fuels is something that is better done here than shipping the raw resource elsewhere.
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We are a resource based economy, and embracing that to an extent is important. What needs to be done is to make these resources work for us more than we are at the moment. Selling mass amounts of fossil fuels to the U.S. and buying it back after its been refined is wasteful. It could have provided so many jobs/so much more money if we were able to do these things ourselves. I don't know fuck all about oil admittedly, so I don't know what that would take, but I do know food. We have the same problem with our fishing industry. We sell mass amounts of shit to the U.S. and China, let them process it and buy it back. Meanwhile we are stuck paying 40+ dollars a kilo for pacific halibut. I'd love to see a manufacturing/processing industry resurgence in Canada, and with our low dollar maybe it will be possible?