Cursing About Resources: How I Fell Into the Great Oilpatch-Economist Breakdown

“When the price of oil is the foundation of your country’s economy, a sudden plunge to half its value focuses the mind wonderfully, doesn’t it?” Those, it turns out, were fighting words. By using that sentence to open a column which examined the political consequences of what I see as Canada’s failure to confront its resource dependence, [...]

Doug Saunders