Canada's economic recovery, which the Liberals take credit for, is due in large part to the increase in demand for commodities (40%). Take that off the table and say goodbye to transfer payments and the standard of living that Canadians now enjoy. yet those with their head in the sand think the magically we can somehow generate money from elsewhere except there isn't an elsewhere, and solar and wind power simply doesn't cut it. Hard to export aren't they. Those who figure that oil is on the way out, have zero economic credibility, and must have hung on to Nortel shares right to the bottom. When you have resources that people want to buy, you sell them, you don't hang on to them until they are worthless, if that day is ever going to come. There is also a common refrain that we should be spending our money elsewhere. It's not our money, it is private money that generates money, jobs, taxes for us. When the private money leaves we will know it, the housing crisis in BC will leave with it