SUMMARY - Exporting Nature: Canada's Role in the Global Resource Market
Canada exports nature. Oil, gas, minerals, timber, fish, agricultural products, and fresh water flow outward to global markets. This resource extraction shapes Canadian economy, identity, and landscape. It also generates controversy: environmental impacts, Indigenous rights conflicts, boom-bust cycles, and questions about whether Canadians benefit fairly from resources that belong, in principle, to all of us. Canada's position in the global resource market reflects both opportunity and tension.