Margareta Dovgal: Carney must embrace Canada’s petrostate status

For 20 years, critics have hurled the word “petrostate” at Canada.

If we are a petrostate, we are an embarrassingly bad one.

A real petrostate knows what its resources are worth.

Crucially, it seeks to preserve the advantages they provide.

Ottawa refuses to view resource revenue as volatile commodity wealth.

By being buried in the […] ...