RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Cobalt export ban from Congo There is so much red tape around resource extraction in Canada -- that is its own corruption. FT's own management has spoken of this reality. Canada's layers of often spurious regulation work to the advantage of special interests in many instances with a patina of legality around such rent-seeking. What is insulting is the belief that just because 'developed countries' embed such 'tactics, ambitions and practices' inside inscrutable codes that it is somehow different in kind, rather than just in degree, from what 'developing countries' do.