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Most of their "advantages" (in "progressive" policy, "free" healthcare etc.) come from the fact that they have us paying for their defence, coupled with having
by melony 4y ago
Most of their "advantages" (in "progressive" policy, "free" healthcare etc.) come from the fact that they have us paying for their defence, coupled with having plenty of natural resources and good geography. It is not a country that seeks or bothers to innovate much beyond riding the coattails of the US like a typical large anglosphere nation. In other words, the Australia of North America. Their primary tech sector functions as a cheap outsourcing service for US companies. The national industries are natural resources, real estate, and immigration. Canadians are tremendously proud of their "recent" innovations that are decades if not centuries old. If you look at the typical Canadian cultural propaganda, the country appears to have nothing to show beyond insulin (invented a century ago) and the Canadarm (a gimmick that allows them to pretend to be an aerospace player). They have no launch vehicle to speak of and their leaders happily destroyed their aerospace industry (see Avro Arrow and the whole Bombardier forced sale incident during the Trump era). The primary reason for their high quality of life is easy access and integration with the US market, without which they would be much poorer. They claim to be a middle power but are more like a middling power. By every metric of innovation and technological achievement, they are an embarrassment.
- pupppet 4y ago
- mb7733 4y agoAs a Canadian, I agree. Canada has plenty of natural resources, good geography, powerful military allies, huge trading partners and high quality of life. It sure is tough here! (But seriously though, you are more or less correct except for the part about us all being "tremendously proud" of our recent innovations. Nobody gives a shit.)
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoSo, basically, the Europe of North America.
- refurb 4y agoThe country has nothing to show beyond insulin and the Canadarm. And basketball. Don’t forget Canada invented basketball.
- desiarnezjr 4y agoGiven where Canada is and what we have, this is our perfect place. We have never needed to be a superpower, and we don't have the population base nor the geography. Our economy is resource based, and most everything centres around that, so more efficiency rather than innovation is needed. We have a reasonably high quality standard of living and output. Not every nation needs to be a testosterone driven "we're #1".
- katbyte 4y agoCanada used to innovate, a lot- and was a decently recognized power during the world wars. Now.. not so much. I blame it on companies gaining more power, the conservatives privatization national assets leading to higher col and lower standards of living. More and more companies extracting wealth to provide the bare minimum. Canada of today is not the Canada of last century.for both better and worse. But that’s just what I think, and what I’ve seen over my life, could be wrong
- TMWNN 4y ago>the Canadarm (a gimmick that allows them to pretend to be an aerospace player) That name "Canadarm" is related to how Canadians are far more flag-obsessed than Americans. The maple leaf appears in the logo/signage of every single company in Canada, including Canadian subsidiaries of US companies. If Canada had a full space program of its own, we'd see red-and-white Canashuttles (named Anne Murray, Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and Margaret Atwood) launching from Cape Canadaveral in Labrador.