since our resources and resource companies are barely taxed at all, and "pay for health and education" comes from taxes paid by workers in those sectors then not spent on health and education AT ALL, it makes no sense at all to stay in the source sector when we don't control world prices and are easily whipsawed by foreign buyers....

entrepreneurial tourism pays very well, as per many private lodges and guest ranches across the problem  = it's mega tourism like Whistler that are "slave economies" but that's not all tourism is, or can be.....