All gains in labour productivity ultimately come from innovation.
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Ironically, Adam Smith made precisely this observation in The Wealth of Nations in 1774.  It is still true.
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However, Canada, with all its advantages, has a tax system and a banking system that are astonishingly biased in favour of resource extraction.
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It may not seem to matter, until you realise that quite apart from being environmentally unsustainable, and quite apart from the unlimited generation of negative externalities,  the relentless subsidization of resource extraction is paid for by the rest of the economy.
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It is a huge penalty.  A millstone.  A ball and chain. A deadweight. 
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It is an enormous tax on innovation.  It is holding our economy back.
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There is nothing wrong with an economy that includes resource extraction.
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But for the love of God stop subsidising it at the expense of the rest of the economy.