Where’s Canada?

22 Replies to “Where’s Canada?”

1. Or Australia and New Zealand for that matter.

2. Below Italy????

   Seriously, why are we out West still a part of this dumpster fire?

3. thanks empty hair . off the charts

4. Are we doing better than Venezuela still?

5. Canada’s firmly in the basement, still trying unsuccessfully to “punch above its weight.”

   As some wag once put it, it would be nice if Canada just tried to gain some weight for a change.

   1. That’s funny.

6. You can see where Canada sits by scrolling down to the “Let me Explain” post.

7. The snake has us on a ladder….down.

8. The chart shows what happens when you include costs instead of just income. This is something most people understand: A $100,000 annual income in Vancouver doesn’t go as far as a $100,000 income in a small Saskatchewan city because housing costs in Vancouver are substantially higher. Just like a $100,000 dollar annual income in a country that charges 40% in income tax leaves you with less money than a country that charges you 15% on a $100,000 income.

   That is why Canada falls off the chart in that study. We have the worst of all conditions: high government taxes, high living expenses and high government spending but with ever declining levels of public services (example – health care*). “Free” public services you can’t access and generous government handouts that only go to poor welfare recipients and corporate class welfare recipients.

   *Like free healthcare, the Liberal-NDP cheap daycare, pharmacare and free dental will only leave you on a long waiting list.

   1. And a sky-rocketing population.

   2. Good comment. Thanks.

9. To be honest.. What’s not smashed goes to Quebec.. What we need is more people who are impressed with the wide selection of goods at Walmart.. Set the bar low..

10. It’s exactly snakes and ladders. Great analogy. And there are far more snakes than ladders. The snakes are mostly constrictors…so everyone suffers a slow, suffocating, death.

11. Now if you only counted Liberal MPs Canada would be at the top!

    – good salaries
    – government expense accounts, perks, and payments to relatives.
    – hours worked: ha, ha, ha.

12. Where is Chinada anyways?
    Canuckistan?

13. Canada is bent over the sofa with a pediatric surgeon driving from behind.

    Thanks Sophie!

    1. Indeed. And I bet you that Joostaihn started to thuthpect thomething wath wrong juth before he threw hith tantrum and called in his thugth.

       1. Budgets balance themselves, eh?

14. After AB/Sask. separate from tier 2 Canada and the ongoing dumpster fire protesting for intifada in Toronto,
    then we’ll be ok.

15. Also Canada’s GDP has been overtaken by Brazil’s in 2023.

16. Know two people who – with family help – have bought their “own” homes. One person – faced with serious rental increases – has bought a very nice upper floor condo with help of parents and is ecstatic and having “a place of one’s own”. Other has owned a condo but on a lower floor so is really pleased to be moving to a funky older half-duplex which has required renos but has really good bones. Family there helped with down payment which will be repaid when condo sold.
    Very much back in the day, were able to buy first home because a modest legacy provided the down payment. For second home, buyer of first home had us assume the “second mortgage” which meant we were caught short. Parents did come to rescue, and we repaid them with interest.

17. Where does Canada end up ranking, can’t find it.