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If Canada ever wants to attain global resource superpower status, a study published Tuesday argues there are several policy lessons that governments across the country must learn first.

Canadian lawmakers have been struggling for decades to agree on a national strategy to develop Canada’s vast oil, gas and mineral deposits. The recent dramatic deadlock between the premiers of Alberta and British Columbia over the fate of a single pipeline proves the issue remains as contentious as the National Energy Program scandal of the early 1980s (the same scandal which Liberal Party leadership candidate Justin Trudeau was recently obliged to remind Canadians that “I was 10” when that happened, and thus had “nothing to do” with it).

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The Canadian International Council report, authored by The Economist Canada correspondent Madelaine Drohan, warns those disputes and others like them may keep the country from realizing its full potential on the world’s economic stage.