Inflation is a worldwide phenomenon right now, but it doesn't help that she is living in Canada. Why Canadians pay much more and have access to less despite liv

Inflation is a worldwide phenomenon right now, but it doesn't help that she is living in Canada. Why Canadians pay much more and have access to less despite living in a country that is 95% culturally, economically, and politically identical to the US, I do not know. I didn't fully understand the disparity until I read the amazing stories in a /r/canada discussion. victorn72's account <http://np.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ueai3/why_are_our_prices_so_much_higher_than_the_us/cehewa1?context=3 http://np.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1ueai3/why_are_our_pr...> caused my jaw to drop open.