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We have the luxury of debating this stuff because Canada has a staggering reserve of natural resources. Hong Kong is wealthy because they have virtually NO resources, so it only leaves adding value to imported resources for economic activity. In other words, outside of the speculative (real estate and stock market) side, Hong Kong has an economy founded on creating wealth. What we CAN learn from them is that wealth is created by adding value to resources. Merely extracting resources and selling them off does NOT create wealth, it simply redistributes it from our finite reserves to our cash account - where we thoughtless just give the money to someone else who DOES add the majority of value. Our model is sustainable only until the resources run out.

Yes, but you failed to address it. I'm aware of all of this. But I'm also aware Chinese workers make a fraction of what workers make here, that safety regulations are minimal, as are pollution restrictions. The only way to do that is steep tariffs on imports, which would greatly increase the price of goods Canadians buy. You presume that private enterprises will kick in the tens of billions to construct these refineries. I have not seen the economic case which suggests this.

Which country actually has a head of state for life...Canada.

These are the sectors I was thinking about and the value they add is in intellectual power and expertise.

Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. But no doubt they won't notice. Just as Erdogan and Putin have their genuine supporters, so will those who directly benefit or hope to benefit from oppression of "others" support an illiberal regime in the US.

hahahaha ......now, we have to put up with the endless melt-down! Hahahahaha BushCheney already covered the economy! let me add this: Funny thing about this so-called bumbling idiot: in such a short time, he's already made two huge changes that would last even long after he's gone - he's already installed TWO Supreme Court Justices! There might even be a third one! He's appointed lawmen who will stick to the Constitution - unlike the Democrat appointees , who manipulate and twist the Comstitution to suit their narrative. Speaking of authoritarian - it's the Democrats who's behaving like authoritarians. http://www.claiminghumanrights.org/presumption_innocence.html https://www.wabash.edu/international/uslaws They totally disregarded Kavanaugh's right! Only evil dictators do that!

Democrats don't believe her story...https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawyer-who-cleared-ellison-of-domestic-abuse-allegations-is-partner-at-firm-that-donated-500g-to-dems and there's Cory Booker the Senator who admitted to groping a high school friend after he kissed her, says it doesn't matter if Judge Kavanaugh is innocent or guilty. Up until now, I thought that some of Trump's anti-media rhetoric was exaggerated and some hyperbole. However, the media's handling of the Kavanaugh story has vindicated much of what Trump has said about them. Rex Murphy gets it https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-the-most-obvious-creeps-in-the-kavanaugh-circus-are-the-journalists