Thank you Notchy! I concur with your opinion on this subject. But things change and Government and us, as tax payers, must now focus on the new frontier, the Canadian Arctic.
60 years ago the money from foreign banking sources financed Canada as a Country to built and maintain the St-Lawrence Seaway open for the needs of Europe and Asia. This launched the Canadian economy in a grand state.
What is new, to my mind, is the fact that all the investments including the companies building the land based infrastructures we pay for Arctic resources are now residents of fiscal paradises. If we go on doing nothing or as usual only working on plans that never materialize all the money will end back in those islands. Save for a limited number of petty jobs .
Our politicians will use excuses about remaining indecisive between investing south or north . And they will press they are too short on cash. ( For my part I think it has only to do, with whom they represent really)