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Re:New Zealand plunges into recessionary spiral by Tiktaalik on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:51PM (#33472789)
Tech industry in bc employs more people than all the mining oil and gas combined.

The importance of the traditional resource industries feels like an out of date meme leveraged for political reasons. It's not the future for Canada.

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Re:New Zealand plunges into recessionary spiral by soperj on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:13PM (#33473104)
BC's biggest exports is still Coal, and then Lumber. I'm sure Natural gas will be added to that list shortly.
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Re:New Zealand plunges into recessionary spiral by lostlogin on Friday November 04, 2022 @05:26PM (#33474007)
That may be true, but at a significant cost. Skilled labour contributing to GDP is rather more useful than trashing the place and making a quick dollar. Just comparing the dollars masks this.
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Re:New Zealand plunges into recessionary spiral by fdsafdewe on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:12PM (#33473091)
You'd be amazed at how many "traditional resources" it takes to manufacture CPUs and other semiconductors.
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