Income Gap with the U.S.: Canadian per-capita GDP is now 30% below the U.S., down from a smaller gap a decade ago, making it the widest disparity in modern history relative to its closest G7 comparator.
Business Investment: Non-residential investment as a share of GDP is the lowest in the G7, declining steadily since 2014 due to regulatory hurdles and tax competitiveness, unlike gains in the U.S. & Germany
Innovation and R&D: R&D spending (1.7% of GDP in 2021) trails most G7 nations (e.g., U.S. at 3.4%, Germany at 3.1%), with no significant growth, reflecting Canada’s lag in tech-driven economies.
Housing and Cost of Living: Housing costs have soared (home prices doubled in many cities), outpacing wage growth, which stagnated in real terms, eroding affordability more than in any G7 peer except perhaps the UK.
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Canada compared to the G7:
While Canada doesn’t always rank dead last on every measure (Italy & Japan perform worse in specific areas), it’s not good
Real GDP per capita grew at just 0.6% annually (2013–2022), among the lowest in the G7, far below the 1.3% G7 average and the U.S.’s 1.6%. Since 2019, it’s been nearly flat or slightly negative, signaling no real prosperity gains.
Productivity: Output per hour worked grew at a dismal rate (below 0.9% annually), lagging half the G7’s historical pace. Business investment per worker dropped from $16,000 (2014) to $11,900 (2021), the weakest trend in the G7.
Living Standards: Inflation-adjusted GDP per capita rose only 0.7% annually (2000–2023), tying France for second-worst, ahead of just Italy (0.1%). Under Trudeau (2015–2023), it fell to 0.3%, the slowest of any recent Canadian government & among G7 peers.
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@Parkside
Your G7 comment is egregiously false
To the extent that for you to even post it has me calling into question if you are a bot or not 🤔
Canada has been the poorest performing G7 country on nearly every metric.
P.S. acknowledging that all the western countries simultaneously been run into the ground by their Liberal Socialist governments all running the same playbook is not the flex you think it is 🤷🏻♂️
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National Post:
Joly briefed Carney on Trump tariffs but not other Liberal leadership candidates
The sources said that when a caucus member pointed out that there are three other candidates, Joly said she would brief them if she can
Selected, Not Elected
This whole thing was a sham from the start
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I guess that Americans need hashtags and social media campaigns to take Lululemon and Canada Goose off the shelves, or something.
Or maybe they just don't really care about pointless symbolism.
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Punishing rural and indigenous Ontarians to make a political grandstand
And spend billions for service later instead of millions for service now
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End all foreign aid
If Canada has even one homeless person with no where to go
Even 1 hospital practicing hallway medicine
Even 1 patient in our healthcare system not getting care due to funding
If we aren’t posting budget surpluses year over year or if we have anymore than 0$ of debt as a country
Then our politicians have no reason or mandate to be taking our (lack of) wealth and redistributing it to other countries (typically to fund their partisan orgs who “claim” to be supporting a charitable case)
Government spending is out of control, unsustainable. Combine with the intentional decline of our economy for climate alarmism and we are on a road to ruin.
Which is already clearly evident as shown in nearly all the issues listed in this poll
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The Freedom Convoy was a turning point in human history, that will go down as one of the most patriotic and Liberty and Freedom serving anti autocratic anti authoritarian movements in history. Set off a slew of similar protests around the world. And showed us the evil empire reaction of the totalitarian fascist regime, the illiberal government who broke laws and ethics to quash any and all dissent against their power.
A regime who still holds our democracy hostage today in prorogation.
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MarkJCarney last week: The Canadian economy is weak - our GDP is fake news because of immigration and govt spending
MarkJCarney this week: The Canadian economy is strong, way stronger than the American economy, everything is fine 🤦🏻♂️
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Economic Diversification: Over-reliance on commodities (oil, minerals) left Canada vulnerable as global demand shifted to tech and green energy, where it lags the U.S., Germany, and Japan.
Future Projections: OECD forecasts Canada to have the weakest per-capita GDP growth among 38 advanced economies (0.7% annually, 2020–2030), a steeper relative decline than any G7 rival.
In absolute terms, Italy’s stagnation or Japan’s demographic decline could compete on some metrics. Canada’s unique combination of slow per-capita growth, productivity woes, and falling living standards relative to its potential makes the case of the Liberals’ Canada being the biggest loser across the board. Truly dismal. And tired of lib supporters ignoring the data to claim otherwise
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