Why is Canada different?

[blackpowder]

So why is it different for Canada?

[Guest]

Because our leader has never had a job, never had to worry how he was gonna pay a bill , etc.....

[burnt]

The daughter of friends of ours is a liaison/developmental worker in Laos. We had time to visit with her recently while taking her to the airport for her return to the Orient.

In reply to my questions about their form of government, she said that it is Communist in name, but rapidly becoming more free enterprise/capitalist in practice.

One of the things that she was working on in the recent past was establishing enforceable property boundaries and property law.

The reason? Their society is discovering that when property laws are in place (i.e.- a worker knows that his investment in seed, land, etc., is secure so he puts more into it), productivity rises. And wow - try to imagine this - when productivity rises, prosperity follows right on it heels! And people move from meager self-sufficiency to developing surplus that can be marketed!

What a reality, what a concept!

So, you ask a good question, why are we moving in the opposite direction in Canada?

My guess is that we are reaping the harvest of too much food for too many years, feeding too many brain-dead graduates of leftist learning institutions.

[mcfarms]

You do realise we barely have property rights in Canada and not really. We are all serfs to the crown.

[rockpile]

You do realise we barely have property rights in Canada and not really. We are all serfs to the crown.

Yup - read your land titles very carefully!

[willy16]

Apparently we like to spend 2 dollars for every 1 we make and increase taxes when they can't figure out how it happened. Until accountability or an element of give a damn enters the equation, nothing will change.

[grassfarmer]

While we might not like everything in Canada it is still well ahead of anywhere in Africa in any of the 3 areas mentioned. Need to keep things in perspective.

[sofa.king]

We may be ahead of Africa but they are progressing and we are going backwards.

[Integrity_Farmer]

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a advocacy group based in Washington DC with long ties to tobacco disinformation campaigns and more recently to climate change denial. It calls itself "a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy institute dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute

The CEI is an AstroTurf organization funded by big business and they have attacked the US Affordable Health Care Act and Challenges to the Dodd-Frank Act and financial regulation

You may want to look at your source before you post this garbage on here. Do a little research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute

[blackpowder]

Fair enough. I could say back at you, but will refrain. Agree the post is naive regarding Africa.
But is the question still not relevant?

[macdon02]

Like Rome, the British Empire and other empires throughout history the US and the West will go supernova and China se Asia will be the new financial powerhouse in our lifetime. Pack your bags, socialism is dead.

[blackpowder]

And the more I think about it Integrity..
Which of the three concepts are garbage??
Surely not safe affordable energy? Surely not property rights? So it must be the lower taxes and regulations that offend your sensibilties??
Hmmmm, I would like to say, typical.

[westernvicki]

Niall Ferguson UK economist offers interesting perspective on the differences between South and North America: why the two Americas have such a different civil, social and economic history. He cites property distribution as core to historic development and long term differences.

In North America settlement was tied to property, in south America massive concentration of land and wealth conquistadors conquered. Canada had one of the highest % of individual ownership of all nations, followed by the USA. Today's social and economic strata reflects this history.

Much of his writing is an interesting read.

[westernvicki]

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&u act=8&ved=0ahUKEwinwZ2FnLnTAhWU8oMKHY85DYYQFghGMAc &url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNiall _Ferguson&usg=AFQjCNHUwj_Edwkt4bPHLoHKLhF8ektrPw&s ig2=HKQlNB4VF8wZt2jPokH_OA

[westernvicki]

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&u act=8&ved=0ahUKEwinwZ2FnLnTAhWU8oMKHY85DYYQFghGMAc &url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FNiall _Ferguson&usg=AFQjCNHUwj_Edwkt4bPHLoHKLhF8ektrPw&s ig2=HKQlNB4VF8wZt2jPokH_OA

He is Scottish.