We could do what Mexico does to us: Dump most of our underclass numbering 100 million (criminal and otherwise) on Canada. We’ll even throw in the illegals and rich Communists, too. We’ll recover our standings in short order.
Progress and freedom in Canada... this article reads like a plantation condition of living. Obama the progressist is the reason America ranks bad.
As for free speech being about press freedom, this is ridiculous. Free speech is measured by the level of subsidy your taxes provide to the speech of others. Canada is bad on free speech... notwithstanding their persecutions of pastors and their strigent gun rules.
Last but not least, America’s freedom vary state by state. Maybe they should compare themselves to California, that would make the point anout socialism.
Could demographics have anything to do with it?
Canada, if you want more illegal aliens we will gladly send them your way. They are far better people than Muslims but I have to say that música norteña, which has way too much accordion, gets old quickly. It’s the kind of music that, when you hear it enough, will make you think that having your head cut off by a mad-dog Muslim isn’t so bad.
Hardly. Canada is a 2nd-rate, tyrannical nation.
“Reporters Without Borders scores Canada 18th for press freedom; in spite of its much vaunted First Amendment, America only manages 41st.”
Oh really? Go ask Mark Steyn how much freedom of speech there is in Turdeauland.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/12957/war-against-free-speech-canada-close-passing-michael-qazvini#
There’s nothing like a happy go-lucky fool. Life isn’t all about being happy - that comes after you take care of the basics. If they were a serious people they would be shouldering the burden of their own national defense.
So, like, what else would we expect the economic stats to show at this point?
If the Canadians leave Junior Turdeau in power for at least the next 4 years, take a guess at what these stats will look like then?
If it was Canada with a border with Mexico their statistics wouldn’t look so good.
Not to worry. Canada's open door policy for immigrants and its chaotic and destructive social policies are taking it down.
In addition the article is a textbook example of Canadian smugness. Underneath all that polite exterior dwells a smug Canadian.
Yeah, let’s see Canada carrying its own weight for self defense instead of sucking on the US for protection. Let’s see Canada when its Socialism bent catches up with it as is bound to happen and very soon. Let’s see Canada paying for the rest of the world as America has done for decades, then tell me how much superior the cheapies are to us.
This neglected that the *way* the founding fathers hoped to accomplish this was *not* through immigration, but by exporting honest republican-democracy throughout the world, so that downtrodden and poor people could improve their *own* nations.
Numbskull author doesn’t realize that without America, Canada would never have it so good.
Fly into Toronto’s Pearson airport and you had better have money, a reason for visiting Canada and no intention to work or study there unless you have the visas—or those more-than-polite CBP folks turn you around, put you back on a plane and send you home.
Try it in Mexico and you rot in the old calabozo before they boot you, not so politely, back to Guatemala—unless you’ve got the mordida/jack to bribe the federales so they let you on La Bestia train for points north. This is how the cartels work with human trafficking as well.
This virtue signalling from our neighbors north and south is getting old fast.
Go Trump, win win win!
Pure propaganda from Macleans, a state funded magazine. I’m Canadian and I shake my head at CATO and others that rank Canada as 6th place for freedom. They obviously look at Canada in a very shallow lazy way.
1) We barely have gun rights. The RCMP repeatedly runs roughshod over those rights by deciding one day to ban rifles that many Canadians own.
2) The RCMP; no over sight whatsoever. Well, I guess there is Parliament, but that is too clunky and slow. They can basically harass, taser people at will, and even cover up for their superiors
3) Our libel laws are as bad as the UK. They are abused and used to shut up dissent. Criticize even a public figure and you can get sued, as happened to Ezra Levant
4) Human Rights (Kangaroo) courts. These still exist in every province but SK. They have been able to fine a comedian because he made fun of gays, put a lifetime gag order on a pastor to never talk about homosexuality again; are basically used to stunt free speech (but have never been used to stop Islamic hate speech). You get no right of legal counsel, truth is not a defense, and the government pays for the case of the complainant who doesn’t even have to be the injured party. You only have to “maybe cause harm now or in the future”
This is just a few of my complaints, but despite Obama, the US is far more free than Canada. Canada is a fine place as long as you shut up and don’t rock the boat.
Don’t you just love when ultra-whitebread states like Vermont or Minnesota get all preachy about how much better their poverty rate, college graduation rate, etc. are than the rest of the benighted United States? They have very few minorities to drag their averages down, so they’re actually being racist.
Macleans is doing the same thing regarding Canada. Therefore, Canadians are racist, they need to check their statistical privilege.