Answer:
Canada exports a large proportion of its mineral production, the mining industry is sensitive to world price fluctuations.
Nobody has ever lived in 80% of Canada. The country’s land remains mostly unexplored. Canada is bigger than the entirety of Europe.
There are areas where there isn’t a road for hundreds of kilometers. The First People live mostly around the edges, and the Europeans mostly live within a hundred kilometers of the American border.
So, the resources are untapped because nobody is there to tap them
Explanation:
From 1990 to 2009, Canada's natural resource wealth, on average, grew by 6% per year. Our abundance of natural resources—such as timber, potash, uranium, oil and gas, and gold—as well as increasing demand for natural resource commodities worldwide are among the factors that have contributed to this growth.
