The war on rural Canada

Rural culture is based on co-operation and neighbourliness. Rural Canadians are slow to anger, but the realization has dawned that the deck is stacked against us. For the good of the country, this must change.

The irony is that Canada’s natural resource industries implement the highest environmental standards in the world, but Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault seems not to care, writes former Conservative MP Robert Sopuck. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROBERT SOPUCK

June 29, 2023

SANDY LAKE, MAN.—The war on rural Canada is largely a one-way street, given the vast population imbalance between large cities and rural communities. For the purposes of this essay, rural Canada refers to the country's agricultural and natural resource producing regions. S...

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