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Re:C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from... by cbowal on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:31PM (#9417875)
Out of curiosity - isn't an economy more diversified (and thus stabilized) by having both manufacturing (which benefits from a low $CAD) and oil (which benefits a high $CAD)?
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Re:C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from... by afarrell on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:40PM (#9417915)
yep, but without a large pool of internal demand to buffer things, these two work against each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

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Re:C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from... by badloginagain on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @08:21PM (#9417971)
Dutch disease is exactly what NDP leader Thomas Mulcair called it, and for some reason the Conservatives are trying to spin it as an attack against Mulcair. Personally I find the political spectrum in Canada just baffling.
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