A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions.
The region now called Canada was colonized strictly for resource extraction, most exemplified by the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Northwest Company, both still in operation. (HBC, NWC)
That heritage leads to, among other things, a normalization of foreign ownership of resource extraction companies and a preference for exporting raw materials instead of building out our own manufacturing sector. It also makes it almost impossible to have a reasonable discussion that might lead to effective controls on any extractive industry.
in Canada they are still allowed to drive those 2004 Peterbilt trucks that run with no emissions controls (no dpf, no euro 7 emission standands: just plain, NOx rich, diesel exhaust gases straight to the atmosphere). If anything, it would help to boycott canadian products.
Well, of course they are.
The region now called Canada was colonized strictly for resource extraction, most exemplified by the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Northwest Company, both still in operation. (HBC, NWC)
That heritage leads to, among other things, a normalization of foreign ownership of resource extraction companies and a preference for exporting raw materials instead of building out our own manufacturing sector. It also makes it almost impossible to have a reasonable discussion that might lead to effective controls on any extractive industry.
in Canada they are still allowed to drive those 2004 Peterbilt trucks that run with no emissions controls (no dpf, no euro 7 emission standands: just plain, NOx rich, diesel exhaust gases straight to the atmosphere). If anything, it would help to boycott canadian products.