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Originally Posted by ecbin
Are those industries that are simply ill-positioned for success in today's world? Eg. The Chinese have gotten into the tree fruit business and are driving prices down and there's not really much I'd want gov't to do about that.
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I can't personally speak for the forestry or fruit industry, but
the BCNDP explicitly decided to ban all jade mining in the Northwest because... well it was never really clear why other than the local First Nations were complaining.
My understanding is actually that the Chinese crave the high quality BC green stuff. Jade, I mean.
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Don't know why BC's so obsessed with the primary sector anyway - we're selling away our best resources for cheap so that another country can refine and profit from them. Might be a better idea for the Interior to push for manufacturing or research jobs instead.
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Comparative advantage. We live in a global economic system and are forced to take part in it. We're never going to be as good at manufacturing as the third world (at least not in our lifetimes), so our greatest economic strength is resource extraction along with tertiary/quaternary industries. There's nothing inherently wrong with that.
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