Andrew Nikiforuk: Canada’s Petrostate Has “Dramatically Diminished Our International Reputation”

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“Alberta is very much a petrostate,” says journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk. “It gets about 30 per cent of its income from the oil and gas industry. So as a consequence, the government over time has tended more to represent this resource and the industry that produces it, than its citizens. This is very typical of a petrostate.”

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