Inflation, OPEC, Petrocan, then stagflation of the 80's followed by massive gut to gov't spending and a boom in mining in Chile etc. We had no debt before Tredeau. He racked up 30 billion over night and as always, we got nothing for it. Then came the crony patronage of the conservatives. Blah blah blah. We really only began to tqake it up again when the tech boom was butting liquidity back into the Jr markets. But, BC flushed the toilet with the NDP sweep and all the red tape and mining fled the province. Salizar tried to get it going only to nearly bankrupt the company. On top of that came the silicon flash crash and all the ensueing craziness of today.