We have no friends in rest of Canada

If you are going to exist in a global economy, you have to realize that there are two things you can sell: manufactured goods and natural resources (I’m ignoring tourism because it’s not sustainable on a national level). The cost of the former is largely dictated by the cost of labour, so in a society where we want everything and at the cheapest price, by default, the countries with the lowest labour cost win.

So Canada will succeed or fail based on resources. And in a country where a small but vocal group of anarchists are convincing the ignorant and the foolish that it’s evil to cut down trees, mine, or produce oil, we’re pretty much screwed.

We have no friends in Canada; they’re happy to take our equalization payments and dance with glee when our efforts fail. Is it time to secede? Would our “dirty” oil look a lot cleaner if we were part of the Union? Just sayin’.

Mark Antosz, Calgary