It's a good thing manufacturing in Canada is more than 50% foreign-owned and controlled and mostly by rich Americans othewise we'd blaming Canadian corporations for doing such a piss-poor job of things. They have Canadian workers best interests in mind and especially during times of economic crises with buy American policies in effect. It's like our corrupt stooges were planning for the future all the while.
Any economist with a half a brain(Harperexcepted) will say that manufacturing will always be among the most important sectors of any prosperous nation's economy. Manufacturing is where innovation and productivity are supposed to happen in order for a country to make things other countries want to buy. No rich country was renowned for its small businessmen or its ditch diggers. And Canada will be forgotten in the future for having contributed to global warming and for having fueled the most unsustainable and most fossil fuel dependent economies of what will be known as the pre-modern old world era.
The future is manufacturing and high tech not extracting energy from dead plants. The writing is on the wall for fossil fuel based economies. Someone should notify our brain-dead colonial administrators in Ottawa sometime soon.
The problem in Canada is that the country has been and continues to be run into the ground by a long-time corrupt stoogeaucracy in Ottawa. They sold the environment to Exxon-IMperial and the fossil fuel industry back in the 1990s, and now they want validating for their bad central planning from head offices in Calgary and corporate board rooms in America.
In effect our colonial adninistrativeship in Ottawa is being instructed to compensate corporate America and China for their lack of sustainable national energy policies. They want to continue bombing other countries and polluting hell out of Canada for a bit of oil. It's madness.