I find much of this forum commentary one dimensional, regionalist, full of political axes to grind or supportive of or against resource development or strangely postulating that immigrants are to blame for this or that.

If we look at the real forest instead of the trees we will see that Canada's economic performance over the last decade has moved from strength to strength but with a warning message.  That warning message is never put your eggs in one basket.  Resources, non-resource exports, foreign investment, domestic consumption etc. Canada is blessed with many economic strengths.  At times one sector can and should dominate; however, never abandon or marginalize non-preforming sectors when another is shining.

I recognize that this philosophy is conservative; however, I believe smoothing out the highs and lows is more civil and in the long term would increase prosperity.