Canada’s greatest failing was the belief that the American led multilateral world would never end; it did and the rest as they say is History
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every time I come back on Xitter I realize I'm way too smart for all you sillies. And the algorithm knows it too 🧠😊
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I've rarely read anything that I agree with so much. Even with MAGA in retreat the calculus for Canada hasn't changed much partly because Canada has been a country that never really took its sovereignty seriously
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Apricot Dahlia 🌸🌝 retweeted
Canada: +142%
Immigrant visas to the US have collapsed almost everywhere since Trump’s new policies, except for two places, per WSJ
Change in monthly US immigrant visas:
Canada: +142%
Mexico: +17%
Western Europe: -16%
Southeast Asia: -17%
Central America: -30%
East Asia: -33%
Caribbean: -53%
South America: -60%
South Asia: -63%
Australia & Oceania: -73%
Middle East: -81%
Eastern Europe: -84%
Africa: -89%
Central Asia: -99%
Good try but Canada doesn’t do change. We would let public systems collapse in a fit of ideological self-righteousness before taking a pragmatic route like Sweden apple.news/Apx6Ym91SRWGvIcOg…
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In other words don’t change anything that might actually benefit consumers or promote more competition. Same old liberal party working on behalf of it it’s oligopoly buddies 🫤
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I know the reason I don’t get much interaction on here is I create truly disturbing scenarios of the future that scares the shit out of Canadians. I only do it as a student of historical geopolitics especially before 1945 where violence and power were the decisive criteria. History is not linear in fact it’s mostly two steps forward seven steps back. But no one wants to hear that especially in a country whose existence and prosperity were naively based on the opposite assumption 🫤😱
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I just love this from the last of the baby boomers no less. I wonder if they understand why they’re so upset?
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When will the transit bubble burst? It doesn’t matter how much money we spend if the people running the thing are massively indifferent or incompetent
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For context Canada is currently 10th we were eighth so we will fall another nine positions. Hard to see how China will grow after losing half 1 billion people in the next 50 years
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X today like watching in real time how politics and societies learn nothing in times of profound and destabilizing change. The same people have been saying the same things for 10 years each believing that they’re on the correct side of history when history itself has no direction moral or otherwise.
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The scariest part is that the entrenched Laurentian elites are now saying none of this matters economic performance doesn’t matter because somehow without it we will fund every social program into eternity. That right there should prevent people from voting for them but alas Canada…
U.S. states and Canadian provinces ranked by GDP per person in Canadian dollars. It's an analog for productivity, wealth and standard of living.
7 of the bottom 10 are Canadian provinces.
Only Alberta (25th of 60) ranks in top half.
Look at the contrast between side-by-side jurisdictions such as Quebec/New York, or BC/Oregon. Places separated by an artificial border, with similar resources and populations, but vastly different economic performance.
Quebec should be embarrassed. Quebec has more resources than Alberta. Quebec also has abundant energy, an educated population, dozens of higher learning institutions, good infrastructure, access to tidewater, borders with large trading partners, democracy, freedom and much more. It basically has all the advantages. So why is it one of North America's economic basket cases? Well...it's mismanaged, has bad leadership, overly unionized, corrupt, highly dependent on government, and entitled.
Alberta will climb to the top-10 once it gets out from under Ottawa's control.
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Man I wish this was parody but being Canada it’s not 😖
Ottawa negotiating deal with Angola as trade diversification efforts expand
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I was going to say it shouldn’t the Westons be investing in Canada but then again they already own everything here 🎩💰
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Apricot Dahlia 🌸🌝 retweeted
Not a single Canadian city on the list. Not one. But 2 cities make the second list. Broken.
I don’t get much engagement on here for whatever reason but I thought this was worth a retweet
I guess no one is surprised there’s not a single Canadian city on this list well places like Indianapolis are. We should be embarrassed as Canadians but our “leaders” tell us GDP per capita just doesn’t matter… 🤯
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Thought this required a bit more visibility than the algorithm was going to do - yes tax levels in Canada matter especially when we compete for labour
I will also add that C$190,000 a year is about what a entry-level tech analyst would make in Seattle an income level for which their top marginal tax rate would be 24% with no state income tax tax. That’s right less than half of what it is in Canada and this is why our country will fail.
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It’s lovely to see Canada’s increasingly self-destructive response to Trump and profoundly changing geopolitics. Two separation referenda, the highest marginal tax rates in the world, joining the most over regulated economic bloc the list just goes on and it’s very hard to watch. We are a far greater threat to ourselves than any foreign power could be. 🫤🇨🇦📉
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