The following is a condensed version of a speech given by Preston Manning at a Frontier Center for Public Policy event in Winnipeg on Sept. 22, 2022.
Canada’s Economic Future
What are Canada’s strengths? We don’t have the largest population. We don’t have the largest stock of financial resources. We don’t have the most salubrious climate.
But what do we have? As the second largest country by area on the face of the earth, we have the second if not the largest stock of natural resources on the planet.
And if that is the case we need our natural resource sectors—agriculture, energy, mining, forestry, and fisheries—to be recognized and treated not as relics of our past, or declining sunset sectors, or environmental liabilities, but as fundamental building blocks of the present and future economy….