David Black is the chairman of Black Press Media and the president of Kitimat Clean.
Our country must focus on three vital things: develop more good jobs, because many are disappearing; build new businesses that can be taxed, rather than increase the burden on existing taxpayers; and improve our physical environment while we do this.
One obvious way to achieve this is to encourage ‘value-add’ in the oil industry.
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