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Hub Dialogues: Brian Dijkema on how the natural resource sector has sustained Canada's middle class

Hub Dialogues: Brian Dijkema on how the natural resource sector has sustained Canada's middle class

Update: 2024-11-13
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Brian Dijkema, the president of Canada at Cardus, and a senior editor of Comment, discusses the role that Canada’s natural resource sector has played in sustaining mid-skilled labour demand in this country. He also sheds light on the risks the Trudeau government’s proposed emissions cap on the oil and gas sector could pose to middle-class opportunity.

 

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The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad.

 

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Hub Dialogues: Brian Dijkema on how the natural resource sector has sustained Canada's middle class

Hub Dialogues: Brian Dijkema on how the natural resource sector has sustained Canada's middle class