It could certainly be said that it has always been true that a country is safer when its operation depends less on external sources. To the extent possible, providing everything necessary for this operation is a debatable proposition.
Still, one could say that certain ideas have been displaced in Canada, chaining industries central to the country’s ability to own itself. Likewise, most central companies have been neglected and even belittled, reducing respect for the company itself, leaving them open and vulnerable to factors over which they have no influence.
Canada has almost everything it needs. But the country, or more appropriately its government, has cut itself off from priority concerns to worry about issues over which it has no real influence.
The reality
The energy industry has become a pariah, and mining alongside energy, absent and the world cannot function. The fact that the abundant resources of an entire province do not have access to the sea is and has been a true national scandal. Defy reason itself.
Undoubtedly, the stability of the Canadian economy should not be linked to the harmful policies of Russia and Saudi Arabia, nor should the thousands of workers in the energy and mining sectors be sidelined by the illusory and worrying ambitions of the international and national pressure groups organized around global warming. Likewise, the post-COVID-19 economy will have to work in every cylinder, and after years of undermining these core industries, we will painfully savor the harvest of this lunatic obsession.
The first step to real self-reliance is to get off the treadmill of what John Kenneth Galbraith called “conventional wisdom.” To become self-sufficient, go to our farmers first, raise your concerns and voices on our national councils. Wives and husbands, small farmers and big men, have been perpetually in trouble, perpetually in the last row of news and the most reluctant to ask for help. This element of reluctance in such strong people, so violently in contrast to the superficial warriors of social justice. Their dignified reluctance to complain marks them as adults. People who have faced real challenges but even in the most difficult moments protect their dignity.
Source: Rex Murphy | National Post
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