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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/comm...e-ottawas-spin
The statistics you posted are misleading when they don’t account for population growth. As pointed out, one country could have a 1% population increase while another could have a 25% population increase over a given period of time.
Canada has had a very poor record compared to peer countries. You don’t even have to compare us to the US (they are way, way ahead of us).
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GDP per capita is just useless though. It's politically expedient to use that to say how terrible Canada is, but means nothing in the grad scheme. It's like me sitting at a table with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and someone talking about the average net worth of that group as though it is useful information.
And yes, in case you're wondering, when the Liberals talk about how low our debt is on a per capita basis compared with the rest of the G7 it's also meaningless. Who cares what that figure looks like?