The USA has many natural advantages against Canada when it comes to 'exceptionalism' - mostly scale and clusters. It's almost impossible to do anything A++ in

The USA has many natural advantages against Canada when it comes to 'exceptionalism' - mostly scale and clusters. It's almost impossible to do anything A++ in Canada because it gets sucked into the US. So Canada is a great place for the 99%, but for anything that's exceptional, it's the US. The way market economies work 'exceptional' companies suck up most of the profits and surpluses ... So it's a perennial problem for the talented. But again, for most people, Canada is a better place if you can hack the weather.