Economic history shows your views wrong. Many medium countries supported their nascent industries with more enthusiasm, money and policy than did Canada ever support its developing industry.
Brutish, live or die thinking never worked, today, nor in any past.
Where do you and your ilk get your closed thinking, do you ever read ?
This country is continually being kept down, to make Americans feel good, its time the naysayers and negative neds got tossed on the dung heap of pessimism from whence they came