Canada: The nation where hunting and killing our golden geese has become a national sport.
And voters are too stupid to figure it out. We are a resource based economy.
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🇨🇦 Canada: The Unicorn of Self-Sabotage
Why We Might Be the Only Country Trying to Kill Its Golden Goose
Canada is one of the only countries on Earth blessed with massive resource wealth — oil, gas, minerals, timber, water — and yet governed largely by political parties that either apologize for it, stigmatize it, or outright campaign against it.
The Liberals, NDP, and Greens have spent years layering restrictions, introducing punitive taxes, and treating our core economic engines like pariahs at a cocktail party. Instead of seizing our natural advantage, we apologize for it on the world stage while competitors dig, drill, and profit — often with far worse environmental standards.
Meanwhile, our oil and gas sector:
• Pays tens of billions in taxes every year
• Funds transfer payments to provinces that pretend they don’t need it
• Employs hundreds of thousands
• Could ethically supply allies and reduce global reliance on authoritarian states
And yet — it’s treated like a dirty secret instead of the national strength that it is.
We’re the only country where resource wealth is treated like a public embarrassment.
The Las Vegas Metaphor
Imagine if Las Vegas suddenly said:
“Gambling is bad. Adult tourism is immoral. We’re shutting down casino construction, limiting playtime, banning booze, and requiring a 12-member Mormon morality council to approve any upgrades. Casinos must close by 9:30 PM. We’re going family-friendly.”
That’s what Canada is doing to its resource sector.
We should be a resource superpower. Instead, we treat our energy and mining industries like shameful relics. We discourage investment. We strangle pipelines. We slow permitting to a crawl. We vilify the sectors that pay for our social programs, healthcare, and green experiments.
The Suit Will Save Us
In place of energy leadership, we get clean-cut politicians in fitted suits who’ve never pumped their gas, telling rural workers to “transition” — with no budget, plan, or respect.
This isn’t “the green economy.” It’s a planned demolition, politely worded.
Final Thought
Canada may be the only country in the world that treats its golden goose like a climate criminal — and hands the eggs to regimes that burn coal by the mountain and laugh all the way to the bank.
And the politicians doing it?
It doesn’t affect them. They’ll be fine — pensioned, photographed, and applauded at climate summits, while the people who built this country are left behind, told to reskill for jobs that don’t yet exist.
