GDP-per-capita is a terrible metric in isolation. Yes, Canada had large population growth relative to it’s GDP growth over the same period, leading to lower gdp-per-capita. This is natural as immigrants will take some time to get employed, upskill, and contribute to the economy. You know what would collapse gdp-per-capita even faster? Achieving that population growth via increasing local birthrates, where instead of immigrants taking a few months to a couple years to get situated into the economy, we have children consuming resources and adding nothing at all to the GDP for ~18 years. But in either case, that population growth is good for Canada in the long term.

…Do we have the customers to justify that?

Yeah, that’s what the US is doing, Carney. Protecting international peace and security. With offensive bombings.

If this motherfucker involves Canadian troops in a yankee war I am going to lose my shit.

Yes. Cuba is lovely. But you’re moving goalposts again. When you decided to weirdly include Iran in all this, you included them due a massacre of 30k people. That’s a far cry from your complaints about Cuba. So why are you conflating them as though they were the same place?

Wasn’t this supposed to be about Cuba? Why are you bringing Iran into it?

Yes it is. And we’re hardly limiting ourselves to trading with only China.

Yeah, well, I’m boycotting American groundhogs.

She’s trying to pretend she’s governor of a US state.

They didn’t win in Vietnam.

I despise this fucking guy.

Not a fan of this guy’s domestic policy but at least he’s pragmatic enough to see the writing on the wall.

For anyone wondering what this commenter is referring to:

Spavor blames fellow prisoner Kovrig for Chinese detention, alleges he was used for intelligence gathering

Michael Spavor reaches settlement with federal government over detention in China

Do you recall on 9/11 when Trump bragged that he now had the tallest building in New York?

I have this sneaking suspicion that what makes this all so “psychologically important” to him is that he wants to make the US the largest country by area on Earth. Stupid, I know, but that’s par for the course for this fucking guy.

Then you just don’t want your guy being questioned. You’ll have to forgive me if I don’t agree.

Would you give this same grace to Pierre Poilievre were he Prime Minister?

Also France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and others.

Yeah, obviously. When you hit me with this obsequious bullshit, though?

He’s literally playing a game of Diplomacy, against a mad man backed by demons. Give him some space to cook.

I’m going to tell you to stuff it.

No. This is a democracy and I reserve the right to criticize leadership, thanks.

Don’t look at the sun is advice that applies more broadly than just the celestial object.

It sure feels like our military leadership is not equipped to meet the moment.