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0 pointsTiktaalik3y ago0 comments

Tech industry in bc employs more people than all the mining oil and gas combined.

The importance of the traditional resource industries feels like an out of date meme leveraged for political reasons. It's not the future for Canada.

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fdsafdewe3y ago

You'd be amazed at how many "traditional resources" it takes to manufacture CPUs and other semiconductors.

soperj3y ago

BC's biggest exports is still Coal, and then Lumber. I'm sure Natural gas will be added to that list shortly.

lostlogin3y ago

That may be true, but at a significant cost. Skilled labour contributing to GDP is rather more useful than trashing the place and making a quick dollar. Just comparing the dollars masks this.

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