The Globe and Mail believes it's 'conventional wisdom' that Canada is suffering from 'Dutch Disease,' the supposed economic malady of a high oil-backed dollar eroding manufacturing exports. Of course, as always with reporters, saying something is 'conventional wisdom' is just a way of describing their own opinions.
What makes the entire fusillade of 'Dutch Disease' news stories so dishonest however, is that the benefits of domestic oil production are never mentioned. If a high dollar is hurting manufacturers in Ontario, aren't high gasoline taxes and massive green energy subsidies for completely failed technologies hurting them too? Imagine the advantages Canadian manufacturers would have if those taxes and subsidies were eliminated.
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