Sometimes the resource roller-coaster is a great ride

Every generation, energy and resource busts turn to booms, and what a gift Canada’s resource endowment then becomes.
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson has to carry the prime minister’s message that Canada is an energy superpower that has what the world needs, writes Heather Exner-Pirot.

Canada’s national identity is deeply intertwined with its energy and resources sector. From the fur trade that drove European exploration and Indigenous trade across the boreal forest, to the settlement of the west for farming; and from mining booms that settled the provin...

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