I don't agree that the entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. I would say it definitely should be, since that's the obvious thing to do when

I don't agree that the entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. I would say it definitely should be, since that's the obvious thing to do when you have a crap load of resources and highly overpriced/under productive labor pool that can't compete effectively at any of the high skill international jobs for any sustainable length of time. It's more like some of the country has a mindset of doing the obvious thing to improve its wellbeing (i.e. prairies) with the rest of it eyeing ways to extract a living from those places doing the right thing without having to get their own hands dirty (i.e. keeping banking in Toronto, along with head offices for various other oligopolies, or directly through unjust tax transfers). This dichotomy is present inter provincially but also increasingly in the provinces split between city and rural.