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Compared to similarily populated/wealthy nations and compared to similarly sized areas, Canada is at a bit of a disadvantage. We have such a large country to maintain yet such a relatively small tax base to maintain it and keep it connected from sea to sea to sea. We have all these natural resources, but none of the infrastructure to process any of it. What little we had, ie Petro Canada, was quickly outpowered and dismantled by cheaper competition from the US. We allow foreign operations access to our resources, they get to sell them back to us at a premium. They provide us short term profits in order to prevent us from building up our own industries because governments are addicted to short term profit/success and letting the next government, and Canadians, suffer the long term consequences.
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LEAFS!
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