Re: Stéphane Dion criticizes Thomas Mulcair for East-West strategy
I always know when I hit on an argument that you find indefensible Flossy, the reddies give it away.
Wrong. He's actually criticized parts of Northen Ontario for shale extraction and how it has had the same effect. And he never said that oilsands production should cease. You've fallen for the energy McCarthyism.
Mulcair is hammered in every province that doesn't have an uncompetitive mfg sector; it's not just Northern Ontario (which by the way, has a big resource base).
Exact figures on what amount of production are secondary to the fact that it has been proven via an independent report (thankfully we still have some left) confirming a mild form of dutch disease. Now that it has been shown, we need to ensure not only sustainable production, but enforcement of environmental law - the cost of which has not been accounted for. That is, essentially, what is inflating the profit in the oil sector and artificially inflating the dollar as well.
Exact figures aren't necessary? Are you on glue?.. So much for the dutch disease argument, as expected, it's a lofty ideal that can't be measured or properly articulated. It's just another way for the mfg sector to say that we can't compete, so the answer is to devalue the dollar for the sole benefit of one sector and at the expense of every Canadian.
I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised, your entire line of quashing anything energy related gravitates around grasping at straws and clinging to any catch-phrase that you think will make the smallest amount of impact.
Actually, it's the very same IIRP study that claimed manufacturers do hold partial responsibility for competing, that also confirmed that dutch disease actually exists.
Partial responsibility, eh?
That's too funny.
Facts.
I know, they hurt you.
You have the belief that any opinion piece in the papers that have the word '
study' or '
report' attached to them are magically factual... In most cases, and especially this issue, the simplest answer is generally the right one... The Cdn mfg sector is not competitive and if the decision not to buy these products is based on the notion that the product is just a few extra pennies, well, the message is pretty clear, ain't it?