Canada needs more than oil and gas to keep the country afloat

We should pursue an increasingly ambitious and potentially much more prosperous and diversified economy. But if our priorities and capital are tied up in raw materials alone, we'll have a diminished future.

Pro-pipeline demonstrators on the Hill on Feb. 19, 2019. Even the world’s biggest petrostate, Saudi Arabia, recognizes that it can't rely on oil and gas to keep it afloat, and is busy diversifying away from its reliance on oil. We must as well, writes David Crane.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 31, 2025

TORONTO—If the oil and gas industry and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith believe Canada should abandon the climate commitments for 2030 it made at the Paris climate summit in 2015—originally made by then-prime minister Stephen Harper—as well as the new commitments made ...

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