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> My reaction can best be summarized as sadness. I was never under the impression my home country was somehow better than the states, ... AFAICT, you're a timb
by username223 12y ago
> My reaction can best be summarized as sadness. I was never under the impression my home country was somehow better than the states, ...
AFAICT, you're a timber-and-oil operation with a small enough population to make it profitable; Saudi Arabia with snow. If those of us in the States could still live that way, we would. That said, you seem a bit less eager to exploit your Fellow Man, so you're slightly better.
- themartorana 12y agoIn general, yeah, but that current government of theirs is a piece of work... http://sciencewriters.ca/initiatives/muzzling_canadian_federal_scientists/ http://sciencewriters.ca/initiatives/muzzling_canadian_feder...
- tacoman 12y agoIf I read this right, Canada's largest single export is cars (probably from GM Canada to GM America) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada#mediaviewer/File:Canada_Products_Export_Treemap_2012.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada#mediaviewer/... Russia is the Saudi Arabia with snow: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russia_Export_Treemap.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russia_Export_Treema...
- chongli 12y agoWow. I never would've guessed our aerospace industry outstrips our wheat exports. That's pretty crazy!