They pretty much agreed to what I said, and went on to wonder why we do not refine our own crude, but sells them out for cheap, then goes on to import refined products at much elevated prices.

I told them our refineries built ages ago were not built to be able to process the thick shale crude produced from the Alberta oil sands. "Then why not build our own refineries to process our own crude?" And we went into the flip flopping of government policies, how a newly elected government can change/put on hold/cancel previously approved permits, construction projects, long term investment projects, etc. on a whim, in the name of saving the environment. A new refinery is a capital intensive, long long term investment that no sane investor will commit to a nation with this kind of unpredictable political climate.

Then we went on to discuss how Canada is a democratic communism. How it's tyranny of the majority. How the unproductive are voting to take from the productive through force enforced by the government. How the system is incentivising more people to be lazy, to take from the productive ones; and driving away prodctive people. So yea, in summary, we're fucked.