At the time resources were decided to be the jurisdiction of the provinces, no one had any idea there would be massive concentrated wealth in the form of oil, and that its concentration would be mainly in one province ... before that, resource value was spread out all over, small in comparison to the work it took to make wealth, to collect furs, cut lumber, dig small mines all over, grow crops, etc ... wealth was more made than found, in those days, land with its resources merely provided the opportunity to work at making it .... oops, pardon me, i started out here trying to think it out the way Trudeau would have, but he is unlikely to have been familiar with the four-letter word 'work', so never mind
What i recall of him are two things - 'Why should I sell your wheat', and the Pee-air Salute out the train window at Salmon Arm ... can't recall exactly what he was saluting that day, the nature of the comment, isn't that odd, you'd think we'd remember the whole picture, as it is relevant context, and important, though Taurus will not like it as it is history
But we do know the general idea - he did not like westerners ... i think i could have fixed that maybe, if i'd got him young enough, handed him an 090 Stihl with a 42-inch bar, and a patch of decadent alpine timber in deep salal on a nice hot day in July ... then he would have understood all the four-letter words
Yes, oil will peter out, and not end abruptly, i think though you could call supply/demand of usd100/bbl a 'lack of oil', and the end of the 'oil age', the latter term describing a period of cheap and easy energy .... what follows it will be a tech boom, innovations galore, the mother of invention getting busy making work for lots of people, and in a much more dispersed manner than the oil age did, maybe ... that is, unless the species chooses to fight over the last few barrels, in which case there will be lots of work toting rifles over other people's sand and tundra, so either way we're covered, a bright future ahead .... cheers |
