I was shocked by the first paragraph of your editorial (“Blessing or Curse?”) in the October, 1989, issue. To read these comments in a newspaper is understandable, but in an otherwise good mining trade journal it is disquieting, to say the least.
How is the world to survive without the basics of agriculture, fishing, forestry and mining and why should Canadians not pursue these activities when they are obviously good at it (sic)? Perhaps you should clarify your position, or perhaps just apologize.
D. Wortman, P. Eng.,
Vancouver, B.C.
Editor’s Note: That first paragraph bemoaned our rather belated entry into the manufacturing of mining machinery and equipment on a large scale. It did not condemn our role as a premier mining country and it did not suggest that our primary industries were superfluous. Rather, we were expressing the hope that a manufacturing base could be built on the back of a primary industry such as mining. We feel (and we think the idea was expressed in the editorial) that mining and manufacturing are not mutually exclusive but complementary activities.
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