Perhaps re-phrasing would be more to-the-point.  "And where the hell have the movers and shakers of Canadian business been for the past 40-odd years?"  Certainly not out diversifying markets as every federal government over that time has exhorted them to do.   Lazy and plain dumb.

It is amusing that the supposed free-market, free-enterprise, get government out of the way zealots whose lives revolve around posting on newspaper websites, scream for 'government' to fix things when it all hits the fan.