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Why Canada Is Able to Do Things Better

46 points by brandonhall 9y ago

mabbo 9y ago
If this article inspires anyone to finally move to Canada, there's lots of startups here in Toronto that are hiring. Also Amazon is hoping to fill 200 more desks this year in their Toronto office and Google is nearby in Waterloo. Happy to help anyone interested.
- jbob2000 9y ago
  As an addendum; the bar is extremely low for developers in Canada. If you show up on time, smell nice, and put on a smile, you will be lauded with awards, compliments, raises, and time off.
  - bluehazed 9y ago
    I wouldn't necessarily say the bar is low... but I feel like the work culture is certainly much healthier here.
- owebmaster 9y ago
  How do I contact you, mabbo? Or should I ask here directly? I'm interested. Actually this thread is a great coincidence as I decided yesterday that I'm going to invest the next months to reallocate to another country and Canada is on the top of my list (I'm Brazilian). My biggest doubt is: should I look for a job from here in Brazil or it would be better to go to Canada first and look there? I'm a 29 years old self-taught developer, programming for a living since 12 with some international clients/employers.
- seigo 9y ago
  I'm interested :), are people from Brazil welcome?
- transverse 9y ago
  Share your email.
- perardi 9y ago
  I am a UI designer in the States, and I've been working on moving to Toronto to be with my partner. I was going to keep my US job, and work remotely, but boy, it'd sure be easier with a Canadian job offer.
  - mabbo 9y ago
    You might try WealthSimple. Not sure if they need ui designers specifically, but they're hiring like mad right now, and seem to care about good design.
jjawssd 9y ago
> Denmark, with a tax burden of 49.6 percent, stands atop the OECD index. It also happens to be a wonderful place to live, with a high standard of living funded by a diversified, high-tech, export-driven economy. Denmark is NOT a wonderful place to live. It is a stable society where everyone is equally poor except the tax dodgers. Furthermore, the climate is more bleak than Seattle. This article makes Denmark seem like THE place to be. It clearly is not. Just look at where the economic migrants are flocking to. That would be Germany. Furthermore, this article is a blatant propaganda piece. "More government is good for you" is the overriding mantra here. There is no discussion of the downsides of increasing taxation on the population at all. Instead, it is a pure puff piece which is engineered to make Canada seem great because of taxation. The reality is that the Canadians are functionally isolated from the United States. They decide their own policies. They decide their own cultural norms and laws. If anything, it is the decoupling of that region from the rest of the legislative United States that fosters such a wonderful culture localized to north of the US border. It's not taxation that makes Canada great, but jurisdiction and their right to self-determination.
- rubatuga 9y ago
  It might be puffy, but it brings up points about how disastrous the attitude about tax cuts in the U.S. is.
  - jjawssd 9y ago
    I agree with you fully. The United States has HUGE problems, and taxes are nowhere near the biggest issue. The United States suffers from enormous cultural heterogeneity, leading to distrust, corruption, and political gridlock.
    - Overtonwindow 9y ago
      Possibly by design, as the political parties and news media find it in their interest to antagonize groups against one another.
- holydude 9y ago
strictnein 9y ago
> "Much of the surrounding road and rail infrastructure is in even worse shape (the trip from LaGuardia Airport to midtown Manhattan being particularly appalling). Washington, D.C.’s semi-functional subway system feels like a World’s Fair exhibit that someone forgot to close down. " Yes, those low tax, anti-government strongholds of NYC and DC are great examples of how more taxes will solve everything.
- bryanlarsen 9y ago
  "low tax, anti-government strongholds of NYC and DC" Compared to the author's Ontario, Canada? Yes, they are.
  - strictnein 9y ago
    Put $100k into each of these: http://www.ey.com/ca/en/services/tax/tax-calculators-2017-personal-tax http://www.ey.com/ca/en/services/tax/tax-calculators-2017-pe... https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-tax-calculator#iCk2xoXx48 https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-tax-calculator#iCk2xoX... Then add another ~3.5% for living in NYC. There's at worst on almost equal footing. More than likely the person in NYC will pay more.
  - Cuuugi 9y ago
    Ontario has the largest non-sovereign debt anywhere. In the world... If you are looking for example for a solid economic policy Ontario should be the farthest thing from. http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/with-twice-the-debt-of-california-ontario-is-now-the-worlds-most-indebted-sub-sovereign-borrower/wcm/30c38ab9-4a3f-4f39-ac95-4d9516013d89 http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/with-twice-th...
  - ameister14 9y ago
    The yearly budget of New York City is around 85 billion dollars.
- DKnoll 9y ago
  Adjusting for the exchange rate and using my own salary as a test, my income tax in Ontario is double that of somebody living in NYC. Also our sales tax is 13% in Ontario versus 8.875% in NYC. From what I can tell residential property tax rates are pretty similar.
bkohlmann 9y ago
This argument has always interested me: "Because Canadian entrepreneurs can quit their day jobs without their spouse losing access to dialysis, or their children losing access to pediatricians, such a system allows business-builders more professional freedom." Does the data show that countries with single payer, or even individual-based (not employer) health care, have greater percentages of entrepreneurs? How about overall entrepreneurial outcomes?
- moomin 9y ago
  Don't know, but I do know that the SV model seems to be principally based around Ivy League kids who already have that kind of safety net in place.
- venning 9y ago
  That's a good question, but probably impossible to answer due to the US's peculiarity. From Wikipedia's list [1], it appears that the US is one of only a handful of countries with employer contribution. All of the others countries I could see are noted as using employer contribution as secondary, where a very large percentage of US coverage has employer contribution as primary or only. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_systems_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_systems_by_country
- throwawayjava 9y ago
  > Does the data show that countries with single payer, or even individual-based (not employer) health care, have greater percentages of entrepreneurs? How about overall entrepreneurial outcomes? It's worth noting that the quote from the article and this question are not at all the same thing. National economies are big complicated things. Aside from the USA, few countries without+ universal healthcare have high rates of what we in the US would consider entrepreneurial activity (e.g., excluding "self-employed" subsistence farmers and the like). But the USA is one of if not the most entrepreneurial country. Again, those two facts tell us basically nothing about the effect of health care systems on entrepreneurship. Trust me, South Sudan's lack of functional universal healthcare is not the reason they haven't usurped SV... People try to study the actual effect by controlling for other variables. Unsurprisingly, "it's complicated" and also EXTREMELY politicized, so you can find studies on both sides of the issue. + But does the US "not have" universal healthcare? cf Canada/western Europe and the answer is yes, but cf other countries and medicare/medicaide and the answer is more fuzzy.
Mikeb85 9y ago
Canada is far from perfect. We too have infrastructure deficits, the city I live in suffers from incompetent city planning (although recently it's gotten better), our house prices are insane, and the cost of living is very high. That being said, the one thing I think Canada does 100x better is politics. Mainly because Canadians generally don't 'belong' to a political party or movement. Almost everyone here will vote almost any direction, depending on the issues at hand and happiness with the status quo. Identity politics is also non-existent here. This leads to a political class which is somewhat more pragmatic, less ideological, and certainly less extreme. Also, at lower levels of government, politicians are more likely to be unaligned with any party, and at the provincial level the political parties vary by province and most aren't aligned with the federal parties. So in general, I'd say Canada's advantage is simply that politics isn't as stratified. But again, while our country is amazing IMO, it's not perfect.
- artorias 9y ago
  >one thing Canada does 100x better is politics >almost anyone here will vote in almost any direction I think the vast majority of liberals that make up the larger cities in Canada would severely disagree with you. Thanks for that 20m tax payer donation btw ;)
- maxxxxx 9y ago
  "Mainly because Canadians generally don't 'belong' to a political party or movement. Almost everyone here will vote almost any direction, depending on the issues at hand and happiness with the status quo. " That's the number one thing that's bugging me in the US and I think is hurting the US a lot. The parties have managed to become so entrenched that people think they have to follow their chosen party instead of thinking about issues themselves.
- jbob2000 9y ago
  Not entirely true. Canada has "conservatives" and "everybody else". We get a lot of american media here which unfortunately poisons a lot of our political debates.
  - 9y ago
startupthrowit 9y ago
In my 25 years of living in Canada, I have to disagree with this article strongly. As an immigrant, I've realized this to be true about our socio democratic experiment: Structurally marginalize those without opportunities in order to transfer wealth from the tax payers to the tax dodgers. I find it mildly amusing to see people talking about moving to Canada. Your mileage will vary but I'd say Montreal should be the only destination. There is a stark contrast to the rest of the Anglo speaking part of Canada which is suffering from an existential crisis as it becomes another American state. Vancouver is a lost cause and you will quickly find the 50~100% pay cut you took to scrape by to do outdoorsy hipster shit isn't going to cut it. Although I love Canada as a nation and the things it stands for, it is far from perfect like this article will have you believe.
j9461701 9y ago
>Canadians tend not to talk about making their country great again. Canada never was particularly great—at least not in the sense that Trump uses the word. Unlike Americans, Canadians haven’t been conditioned to see history in epic, revolutionary terms. To be fair to Americans... once upon a time, they really were were that far ahead of everyone else. In 1945, it's estimated they constituted over 50% of the global GDP. You are the global economy at that point, and that's going to distort anyone's perception of what constitutes fiscal propriety. Most politicians were born either during this golden age, or a bit after when things were still very rosy. The US still represented 40% (edit: of gdp) even when relatively young politicians, like Barack Obama, came into the world. It's difficult to convince someone he can't just cut taxes to generate more good will with the electorate when, for most of his professional life, the economy was so good he could do just that and not seriously hurt anything.
api_or_ipa 9y ago
Funny. As a Canadian, I look to (and moved to) America to achieve. I find our government, at many levels, to be very slow moving, averse to change and frequently lags behind the US in allowing innovation. Vancouver's down-right refusal to consider ride-sharing apps is nothing short of corruption. The archaic alcohol laws, including prohibition of transport of booze across borders (except for made-in-Canada wine, gotta protect your favoured industries!) is another example. Looking north across the border, it's easy to see a greener field, but Canada has suffered a decades of brain-drain and poor multi-factor productivity because of slow, restrictive government policy and a refusal to embrace innovation. It's a shame it takes this long to enact change.
- YZF 9y ago
  I was traveling in Illinois many years ago with some locals and we passed a county were supposedly prohibition is still in effect. So not sure about US being ahead of Canada there. I'm not a big fan of alcohol but it's now sold in supermarkets in BC and there's a million micro-breweries so I don't think we're that much behind in this questionable industry. People here (and in the US) seem incapable of drinking responsibly and that impacts others so not sure why we should worry about providing them with easy/cheap booze. In Vancouver I'd point to the homeless issue is the biggest problem. After the weather ;) All in all I think Canada strikes a good balance. Possibly one of the best in the world. If the weather was better we'd be ahead of the US in all parameters ...
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petraeus 9y ago
Specifically, it is imagined that even severe and abruptly implemented tax cuts will serve to actually increase government revenue, thanks to the turbo-charging effect on economy growth. - a conservative
almonj 9y ago
There is a lot of valuable information and,in my opinion, the author's views are well supported by his experience and his research. However, you get the sense he has been paid by the word. I think democratic systems are under threat. I think, as well, that the threats are resulting in lower economic growth and fewer opportunities for evolving generations. This article does not provide an important context as to why this is happening. Society would be better off if everyone knew this stuff. I just wish it was a little more readable.
- owebmaster 9y ago
  > The health care in Canada is terrible. If I want to see a doctor I have to wait typically 2+ weeks to get an appointment. Go to emergency room you have to wait 8+ hours and receive poor treatment. Oh, how I enjoy first world problems. I'm feeling like I'll love Canada.
  - almonj 9y ago
    Of course the power to amend provincial constitutions is restricted to changes in the internal machinery of the provincial government
    - owebmaster 9y ago
      If not so many countries are doing better than them, I think they are doing the best work as it is not easy to manage a country. Outsiders don't do good judgement.
economics101 9y ago
The US now has a federal budget of $4 trillion. Lack of money is not the problem.
almonj 9y ago
Nothing that the Canadian Government does is good. All government institutions survive through theft, deception and immorality. All government programs are dysgenics programs. All functions of government can be surpassed by regulation free markets. All non-voluntary regulations are implicitly sexist, racist and immoral. All government programs perpetuate abusive relationships. All government workers are bad people. All functions of government should be replaced by regulation free markets. Canada is one of the worst places to live in the world right now, as it on the verge of a complete TechnoMarxist takeover and well on the way to becoming a neo-third-world country. In < 10 years we will have a complete surveillance state, forced labor camps and eugenics programs. The federal government already has apps with points based rewards systems that track all of your behavior and give you tax credits for destroying your country and people. To see people praising this obviously paid by the federal government shill is shocking, here on this website, a website for intellectuals. You utter fools! You're playing right into the hands of the authoritarians.

46 points by brandonhall 9y ago

If this article inspires anyone to finally move to Canada, there's lots of startups here in Toronto that are hiring. Also Amazon is hoping to fill 200 more desks this year in their Toronto office and Google is nearby in Waterloo. Happy to help anyone interested.

jbob2000 9y ago
As an addendum; the bar is extremely low for developers in Canada. If you show up on time, smell nice, and put on a smile, you will be lauded with awards, compliments, raises, and time off.
- bluehazed 9y ago
  I wouldn't necessarily say the bar is low... but I feel like the work culture is certainly much healthier here.
owebmaster 9y ago
How do I contact you, mabbo? Or should I ask here directly? I'm interested. Actually this thread is a great coincidence as I decided yesterday that I'm going to invest the next months to reallocate to another country and Canada is on the top of my list (I'm Brazilian). My biggest doubt is: should I look for a job from here in Brazil or it would be better to go to Canada first and look there? I'm a 29 years old self-taught developer, programming for a living since 12 with some international clients/employers.
seigo 9y ago
I'm interested :), are people from Brazil welcome?
transverse 9y ago
Share your email.
perardi 9y ago
I am a UI designer in the States, and I've been working on moving to Toronto to be with my partner. I was going to keep my US job, and work remotely, but boy, it'd sure be easier with a Canadian job offer.
- mabbo 9y ago
  You might try WealthSimple. Not sure if they need ui designers specifically, but they're hiring like mad right now, and seem to care about good design.

jjawssd 9y ago

> Denmark, with a tax burden of 49.6 percent, stands atop the OECD index. It also happens to be a wonderful place to live, with a high standard of living funded by a diversified, high-tech, export-driven economy. Denmark is NOT a wonderful place to live. It is a stable society where everyone is equally poor except the tax dodgers. Furthermore, the climate is more bleak than Seattle. This article makes Denmark seem like THE place to be. It clearly is not. Just look at where the economic migrants are flocking to. That would be Germany. Furthermore, this article is a blatant propaganda piece. "More government is good for you" is the overriding mantra here. There is no discussion of the downsides of increasing taxation on the population at all. Instead, it is a pure puff piece which is engineered to make Canada seem great because of taxation. The reality is that the Canadians are functionally isolated from the United States. They decide their own policies. They decide their own cultural norms and laws. If anything, it is the decoupling of that region from the rest of the legislative United States that fosters such a wonderful culture localized to north of the US border. It's not taxation that makes Canada great, but jurisdiction and their right to self-determination.

rubatuga 9y ago
It might be puffy, but it brings up points about how disastrous the attitude about tax cuts in the U.S. is.
- jjawssd 9y ago
  I agree with you fully. The United States has HUGE problems, and taxes are nowhere near the biggest issue. The United States suffers from enormous cultural heterogeneity, leading to distrust, corruption, and political gridlock.
  - Overtonwindow 9y ago
    Possibly by design, as the political parties and news media find it in their interest to antagonize groups against one another.
holydude 9y ago

strictnein 9y ago

> "Much of the surrounding road and rail infrastructure is in even worse shape (the trip from LaGuardia Airport to midtown Manhattan being particularly appalling). Washington, D.C.’s semi-functional subway system feels like a World’s Fair exhibit that someone forgot to close down. " Yes, those low tax, anti-government strongholds of NYC and DC are great examples of how more taxes will solve everything.

bryanlarsen 9y ago
"low tax, anti-government strongholds of NYC and DC" Compared to the author's Ontario, Canada? Yes, they are.
- strictnein 9y ago
  Put $100k into each of these: http://www.ey.com/ca/en/services/tax/tax-calculators-2017-personal-tax http://www.ey.com/ca/en/services/tax/tax-calculators-2017-pe... https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-tax-calculator#iCk2xoXx48 https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-tax-calculator#iCk2xoX... Then add another ~3.5% for living in NYC. There's at worst on almost equal footing. More than likely the person in NYC will pay more.
- Cuuugi 9y ago
  Ontario has the largest non-sovereign debt anywhere. In the world... If you are looking for example for a solid economic policy Ontario should be the farthest thing from. http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/with-twice-the-debt-of-california-ontario-is-now-the-worlds-most-indebted-sub-sovereign-borrower/wcm/30c38ab9-4a3f-4f39-ac95-4d9516013d89 http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/with-twice-th...
- ameister14 9y ago
  The yearly budget of New York City is around 85 billion dollars.
DKnoll 9y ago
Adjusting for the exchange rate and using my own salary as a test, my income tax in Ontario is double that of somebody living in NYC. Also our sales tax is 13% in Ontario versus 8.875% in NYC. From what I can tell residential property tax rates are pretty similar.

bkohlmann 9y ago

This argument has always interested me: "Because Canadian entrepreneurs can quit their day jobs without their spouse losing access to dialysis, or their children losing access to pediatricians, such a system allows business-builders more professional freedom." Does the data show that countries with single payer, or even individual-based (not employer) health care, have greater percentages of entrepreneurs? How about overall entrepreneurial outcomes?

moomin 9y ago
Don't know, but I do know that the SV model seems to be principally based around Ivy League kids who already have that kind of safety net in place.
venning 9y ago
That's a good question, but probably impossible to answer due to the US's peculiarity. From Wikipedia's list [1], it appears that the US is one of only a handful of countries with employer contribution. All of the others countries I could see are noted as using employer contribution as secondary, where a very large percentage of US coverage has employer contribution as primary or only. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_systems_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_systems_by_country
throwawayjava 9y ago
> Does the data show that countries with single payer, or even individual-based (not employer) health care, have greater percentages of entrepreneurs? How about overall entrepreneurial outcomes? It's worth noting that the quote from the article and this question are not at all the same thing. National economies are big complicated things. Aside from the USA, few countries without+ universal healthcare have high rates of what we in the US would consider entrepreneurial activity (e.g., excluding "self-employed" subsistence farmers and the like). But the USA is one of if not the most entrepreneurial country. Again, those two facts tell us basically nothing about the effect of health care systems on entrepreneurship. Trust me, South Sudan's lack of functional universal healthcare is not the reason they haven't usurped SV... People try to study the actual effect by controlling for other variables. Unsurprisingly, "it's complicated" and also EXTREMELY politicized, so you can find studies on both sides of the issue. + But does the US "not have" universal healthcare? cf Canada/western Europe and the answer is yes, but cf other countries and medicare/medicaide and the answer is more fuzzy.

Mikeb85 9y ago

Canada is far from perfect. We too have infrastructure deficits, the city I live in suffers from incompetent city planning (although recently it's gotten better), our house prices are insane, and the cost of living is very high. That being said, the one thing I think Canada does 100x better is politics. Mainly because Canadians generally don't 'belong' to a political party or movement. Almost everyone here will vote almost any direction, depending on the issues at hand and happiness with the status quo. Identity politics is also non-existent here. This leads to a political class which is somewhat more pragmatic, less ideological, and certainly less extreme. Also, at lower levels of government, politicians are more likely to be unaligned with any party, and at the provincial level the political parties vary by province and most aren't aligned with the federal parties. So in general, I'd say Canada's advantage is simply that politics isn't as stratified. But again, while our country is amazing IMO, it's not perfect.

artorias 9y ago
>one thing Canada does 100x better is politics >almost anyone here will vote in almost any direction I think the vast majority of liberals that make up the larger cities in Canada would severely disagree with you. Thanks for that 20m tax payer donation btw ;)
maxxxxx 9y ago
"Mainly because Canadians generally don't 'belong' to a political party or movement. Almost everyone here will vote almost any direction, depending on the issues at hand and happiness with the status quo. " That's the number one thing that's bugging me in the US and I think is hurting the US a lot. The parties have managed to become so entrenched that people think they have to follow their chosen party instead of thinking about issues themselves.
jbob2000 9y ago
Not entirely true. Canada has "conservatives" and "everybody else". We get a lot of american media here which unfortunately poisons a lot of our political debates.
- 9y ago

startupthrowit 9y ago

In my 25 years of living in Canada, I have to disagree with this article strongly. As an immigrant, I've realized this to be true about our socio democratic experiment: Structurally marginalize those without opportunities in order to transfer wealth from the tax payers to the tax dodgers. I find it mildly amusing to see people talking about moving to Canada. Your mileage will vary but I'd say Montreal should be the only destination. There is a stark contrast to the rest of the Anglo speaking part of Canada which is suffering from an existential crisis as it becomes another American state. Vancouver is a lost cause and you will quickly find the 50~100% pay cut you took to scrape by to do outdoorsy hipster shit isn't going to cut it. Although I love Canada as a nation and the things it stands for, it is far from perfect like this article will have you believe.

j9461701 9y ago

>Canadians tend not to talk about making their country great again. Canada never was particularly great—at least not in the sense that Trump uses the word. Unlike Americans, Canadians haven’t been conditioned to see history in epic, revolutionary terms. To be fair to Americans... once upon a time, they really were were that far ahead of everyone else. In 1945, it's estimated they constituted over 50% of the global GDP. You are the global economy at that point, and that's going to distort anyone's perception of what constitutes fiscal propriety. Most politicians were born either during this golden age, or a bit after when things were still very rosy. The US still represented 40% (edit: of gdp) even when relatively young politicians, like Barack Obama, came into the world. It's difficult to convince someone he can't just cut taxes to generate more good will with the electorate when, for most of his professional life, the economy was so good he could do just that and not seriously hurt anything.

api_or_ipa 9y ago

Funny. As a Canadian, I look to (and moved to) America to achieve. I find our government, at many levels, to be very slow moving, averse to change and frequently lags behind the US in allowing innovation. Vancouver's down-right refusal to consider ride-sharing apps is nothing short of corruption. The archaic alcohol laws, including prohibition of transport of booze across borders (except for made-in-Canada wine, gotta protect your favoured industries!) is another example. Looking north across the border, it's easy to see a greener field, but Canada has suffered a decades of brain-drain and poor multi-factor productivity because of slow, restrictive government policy and a refusal to embrace innovation. It's a shame it takes this long to enact change.

YZF 9y ago
I was traveling in Illinois many years ago with some locals and we passed a county were supposedly prohibition is still in effect. So not sure about US being ahead of Canada there. I'm not a big fan of alcohol but it's now sold in supermarkets in BC and there's a million micro-breweries so I don't think we're that much behind in this questionable industry. People here (and in the US) seem incapable of drinking responsibly and that impacts others so not sure why we should worry about providing them with easy/cheap booze. In Vancouver I'd point to the homeless issue is the biggest problem. After the weather ;) All in all I think Canada strikes a good balance. Possibly one of the best in the world. If the weather was better we'd be ahead of the US in all parameters ...

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petraeus 9y ago

Specifically, it is imagined that even severe and abruptly implemented tax cuts will serve to actually increase government revenue, thanks to the turbo-charging effect on economy growth. - a conservative

almonj 9y ago

There is a lot of valuable information and,in my opinion, the author's views are well supported by his experience and his research. However, you get the sense he has been paid by the word. I think democratic systems are under threat. I think, as well, that the threats are resulting in lower economic growth and fewer opportunities for evolving generations. This article does not provide an important context as to why this is happening. Society would be better off if everyone knew this stuff. I just wish it was a little more readable.

owebmaster 9y ago
> The health care in Canada is terrible. If I want to see a doctor I have to wait typically 2+ weeks to get an appointment. Go to emergency room you have to wait 8+ hours and receive poor treatment. Oh, how I enjoy first world problems. I'm feeling like I'll love Canada.
- almonj 9y ago
  Of course the power to amend provincial constitutions is restricted to changes in the internal machinery of the provincial government
  - owebmaster 9y ago
    If not so many countries are doing better than them, I think they are doing the best work as it is not easy to manage a country. Outsiders don't do good judgement.

economics101 9y ago

The US now has a federal budget of $4 trillion. Lack of money is not the problem.

almonj 9y ago

Nothing that the Canadian Government does is good. All government institutions survive through theft, deception and immorality. All government programs are dysgenics programs. All functions of government can be surpassed by regulation free markets. All non-voluntary regulations are implicitly sexist, racist and immoral. All government programs perpetuate abusive relationships. All government workers are bad people. All functions of government should be replaced by regulation free markets. Canada is one of the worst places to live in the world right now, as it on the verge of a complete TechnoMarxist takeover and well on the way to becoming a neo-third-world country. In < 10 years we will have a complete surveillance state, forced labor camps and eugenics programs. The federal government already has apps with points based rewards systems that track all of your behavior and give you tax credits for destroying your country and people. To see people praising this obviously paid by the federal government shill is shocking, here on this website, a website for intellectuals. You utter fools! You're playing right into the hands of the authoritarians.