Let's be clear, I am not incriminating Harper administration for the economic debacle.
As you may have figured this out, I am a strong advocate that there is little room for a government to intervene in a free market economy. But that doesn't mean governments are off the hook in terms of the mandate to strategize nation's interest in both short term and long term. Sure you may say the argument sounds a bit of rhetoric. I'd say it's not too late for the government to admit their shortsighted oil economic model failed and to change their attitudes.