Getting back to the gold mine picture, the problem is not the gold in the soil, the problem is we're running out of atmosphere to throw it into. Maybe in Canada we're denying this and that's fine, and it's okay, but elsewhere in the world, that's a fact. It's taken as a scientific and basic fact.
Most economies are trying to find ways to move out of carbon-based energy without thinking that they can live in a world without oil. I mean, everybody is realistic. We're going to need oil and gas, but maybe a lot less.
Then things like transport infrastructure projects are occasions where we could diversity our economy and where we could start to move away from this carbon dependency. I'll give you one small example coming from southern Ontario.
There's a small business that my dad owns, it does hydraulics and robotics. The hydraulic side is putting snowplows on machines to clear the 401. He does this in Canada. He also does robotics for Bombardier for the brake system for high-speed rail and monorails. He fixes these and builds them all over the world except in Canada because Bombardier doesn't sell electrically based high-speed rail or monorails in Canada because Canada is not interested in this technology.