Will another big company ---bite the Canada dirt...looks itThe Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that the hollowing out of Corporate Canada has been a dominant theme in this country for two decades. The Globe's Eric Reguly writes that through foreign takeovers, deep recessions or inept and feckless management, industry after industry has been gutted. Nortel vanished, and BlackBerry allowed the iPhone to vaporize its global command of the smart phone market. Inco and Falconbrige, which should have joined forces to create a homegrown version of BHP or Anglo American, were picked off by foreign mining companies and turned into branch plants. Bombardier is busy dismantling itself. Coincidentally, some of the world's biggest companies, among them BP, Shell, Eni and Total, are downgrading their hydrocarbon ambitions as investors shift to renewable-energy plays. As Canada searches for industries to replace those it has lost, or is busy losing, lunging into renewables would be a smart strategy -- not just the production of clean energy, but the technologies behind it. Alberta is the obvious province to lead the charge. It has the entrepreneurial spirit, capital, technical know-how and big-project mentality to make a name for itself in the clean-energy revolution.