This are the kinds of moments where Governments are supposed to take meaningful, intentional investments on behalf of its citizens. We know where things are going, we’re a mineral rich country, and now we need the leadership to take us there.

Problem is, it looks bad in a 4 year time span, and will look brilliant in 20 years, once any possibility of taking credit has passed. It’s where modern politics fail miserably.

Stop selling our mineral rights. Keep the mining and processing companies in Canadian hands, invest in education, research and development, and manufacturing. Invest in Canadian owners and businesses, and socialize whatever isn’t profitable in the short term for a long term bet. Then, don’t sell it all when it gets profitable.

If our governments would stay the course we could renew our power grid, become a clean energy manufacturing powerhouse that owns the entire chain, and develop our economy for the next century.

We could. But it will be costly in the short term, and doesn’t create electable headlines.