3 ways America should be more like Canada

Daily Ticker ^ | 5/14/14 | Rick Newman

[TangledUpInBlue]

So for guidance on how to fix America, why not look north to Canada, where the mood is upbeat and life appears to be getting demonstrably better? The New York Times recently reported the Canadian middle class is now the world’s richest, surpassing the U.S. for the first time. In the 2014 “better life index” recently published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Canada outscored the United States in 9 of 11 categories, including education, safety and overall life satisfaction

[staytrue]

from the article:

There’s less hostility toward immigrants. Canada, like the United States, has limits on the number of foreigners it allows into the country to work. But the whole issue of immigration is far less politicized, and there’s a broad understanding that skilled foreign workers help the economy.

Canada actually recruits immigrants, part of a deliberate effort to attract talented foreigners most likely to contribute to economic growth. In the United States, the quota for skilled immigrants is far below the number U.S. firms would hire if they could get them. Despite appeals from many businesses,

Congress is paralyzed on reforms that would let more skilled immigrants in, partly because that issue gets conflated with separate reforms aimed at stemming the flow of unskilled illegals.

[staytrue]

Canada has mostly disavowed the black ghetto culture.

[dfwgator]

4. Get Rid of Justin Bieber.

[staytrue]

I think Robert Mugabe is still alive and the clown who succeeded the dead guy in Venezuela too.

[Dr. Sivana]

Canada has mostly disavowed the black ghetto culture.

Properly put. While Canada certainly doesn't have the number of black people as the U.S., I have found the big problems in the to be related to the urban areas and the hip-hop/drug/gang anti-culture. Every time I travel through non-urban Georgia, I find that everybody, black and white, are more polite, markedly so, than their northeastern counterparts, especially in convenience stores, restaurants, etc.

[null and void]

Hmmmmm. Didn’t Mugabe make everyone in Zimbabwe a multimillionaire?

[kabar]

We have about 45 million foreign born in the US, which is bigger than the entire population of Canada.

[staytrue]

“14.2% Asian

4.3% Aboriginal

2.9% Black “

I think if you flip Asian and Black, you pretty much get the USA numbers. And if you look at the all black areas of the USA vs. the all asian areas of Canada, you might see the reason Canada does better.

[staytrue]

I think Mugabe made every one a multi quadrillionaire.

[dfwgator]

I’m afraid though our black ghetto culture has spread around the Globe, I was shocked how much of it I saw in Europe.

[Georgia Girl 2]

So true.

[null and void]

Source here

[kabar]

There is no doubt that as a group Asians in the US far exceed Blacks in terms of educational levels and income. They also have much lower rates of out of wedlock birthrates than blacks or whites, non-Hispanic and Hispanic.

Of course, it is foolish to lump in Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Indonesians, Filipinos, Indians, Pakistanis into one group, i.e., Asians. The only thing they really share in geographic location.

[cuban leaf]

Yeah, it’s not ALL north. ;-)

[GOPJ]

I agree ... good job there Tangled...

[Gay State Conservative]

Canada's a good country,populated largely by good decent people.But in addition to good people it could be argued that Canada has had several strokes of luck that we haven't.1) Natural resources.Yes,we have them too but not in the proportions that Canada does...when adjusted for population.2) Given its land area,Canada doesn't spend a whole lot on defense.It's common knowledge that Canada's "Ministry of Defence" isn't located in Ottawa but in Arlington,Virginia.This,put simply,is because we,the US,decided decades ago that an attack on Canada is an attack on us and we've built our military accordingly.Canada knows this,Canada's potential enemies know this."Canada's enemies?",one might ask.Yah...think natural resources.3) Canada is lucky enough to share a land border with *one* nation,that nation being a civilized,prosperous and peaceful one.Think 4000 mile long *undefended* border.The US,OTOH,is lucky to share a border with Canada but is very,very,very *unlucky* to share a 1000 mile long border with one of the filthiest,poorest,most violent nations on earth.Severed human heads are being displayed on spikes and fence posts within sight of our common border with that nation.Not many severed heads on display near the US/Canadian border!

And BTW...to all you folks in the Great White North:

GO BRUINS!

[TBP]

We should put unnecessary u’s in words like labour and favour?

[TomServo]

[Gay State Conservative]

We should put unnecessary u’s in words like labour and favour?

And have you ever seen what they call "bacon" up there?

[JimRed]

4. Very few non-English speakers. OOPS! Wait! I forgot the frogspeakin’ Quebeqois!