[perardi]

I’m a US citizen who lived in Canada for a while. I am nothing but glad I got out.

1. Economic growth is anemic, and despite Canada’s vaunted environmentalism liberalism and environmentalism, is still highly dependent on resource extraction and de-facto government-sponsored monopolies like Rogers and Bombardier. https://twitter.com/mikalskuterud/status/1763207065135464872

2. Health care is an absolute mess, and I know this from personal experience, living with a paramedic. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/primary-care-canada-10-000-...

3. Housing is beyond an absolute mess—it’s broken beyond all repair. Which is, in part, because there are basically 5–6 real metro areas in Canada, and the government is utterly reliant on immigration to keep the population and workforce growing, so everyone wants to move to the GTA. https://financialpost.com/news/canada-housing-gap-bigger-tha...

4. Canadian are…I’ll be blunt, I don’t have a citation for this…complacent. They don’t have the hustle of Americans. They had a good 50 or so years there we they’ve basically been a protectorate of the US, and could coast on our military spending and corporate R&D development, with trickle-down benefits because their dollar has generally been 70% of the US dollar, and we could plonk some key assets north of the border as a tax dodge. But if Trump comes back into power, and the overall increasing skepticism of globalism, that is coming to an end.

[petermcneeley]

I would add a bit of nuance to Canada USA question. Canada can not have proper companies or even industry because of the USA. The only legitimately Canadian industries are those that are highly protected from US market capital. Canada just became good at the only thing that the US allowed it to be.

[TMWNN]

>1. Economic growth is anemic, and despite Canada’s vaunted environmentalism liberalism and environmentalism, is still highly dependent on resource extraction and de-facto government-sponsored monopolies like Rogers and Bombardier.

I've heard Canada described as three mining companies standing on each other wearing an overcoat.

>2. Health care is an absolute mess, and I know this from personal experience, living with a paramedic.

As the article says, an amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor <https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana...>. In Atlantic Canada it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one <https://web.archive.org/web/20190226051406/https://www.thete...>. It's one thing to have shortages in rural areas—that happens in the US too—but Halifax?!? I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too, and the article indicates that this is a nationwide problem.

>3. Housing is beyond an absolute mess—it’s broken beyond all repair. Which is, in part, because there are basically 5–6 real metro areas in Canada, and the government is utterly reliant on immigration to keep the population and workforce growing, so everyone wants to move to the GTA.

To a first degree of approximation, there are no jobs outside Montreal and Toronto, except mining/O&G in Edmonton/Calgary and some tech in Vancouver. Alabama is more productive on a GDP/per capita basis than BC. <https://np.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/17oostz/the_...>

>4. Canadian are…I’ll be blunt, I don’t have a citation for this…complacent.

The one thing Canada has always outstripped the US on is production of smug sneering across the border.