Ok - this is what you want to go with in terms of 'performance'?
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Ok - this is what you want to go with in terms of 'performance'?
Throw some BL style in here:
Canada's economy has struggled over the past five years (2020–2025) due to stagnant GDP per capita, declining productivity, and a severe housing affordability crisis. Key factors include weak business investment, high regulatory burdens, and an influx of immigrants that outpaced economic growth, leading to lower living standards despite overall GDP growth.
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Key Data-Based Arguments for Poor Economic Performance (2020-2025):
Canada's economy has struggled over the past five years (2020–2025) due to stagnant GDP per capita, declining productivity, and a severe housing affordability crisis. Key factors include weak business investment, high regulatory burdens, and an influx of immigrants that outpaced economic growth, leading to lower living standards despite overall GDP growth.
Fraser Institute +4Key Data-Based Arguments for Poor Economic Performance (2020-2025):
- Declining GDP Per Capita & Productivity: While overall GDP grew, it failed to keep pace with population growth, resulting in lower living standards. Canada experienced declining productivity since the pandemic, held back by low investment in machinery, equipment, and innovation compared to the U.S..
- Rapid Population Growth vs. Economic Growth: In 2023, Canada added nearly 1.3 million people (a
increase), while the economy grew by only
. This gap has created an "economic stagnation". - Weak Business Investment: Business investment has been, according to the Fraser Institute, notably low due to regulatory burdens, higher taxes, and a shift in capital away from productivity-enhancing sectors.
- Affordability Crisis: Inflation has significantly outpaced wage growth for necessities, with food and housing costs rising roughly
since 2020, far exceeding general CPI, note RBC Wealth Management. - Structural Weaknesses: The economy is heavily reliant on a few sectors, with a "oligopolistic architecture" in banking, telecommunications, and energy, which hinders innovation and competitiveness.
TD Economics +7
nsacpi
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Canadian stock market up 30% in 2025
S&P500 up 16%
Let me know if you want to look at metrics other than job growth or stock market performance.
Ah so cyclical movement of investments from one expensive index (US based index) to a cheaper one.
We get it - Has very little to do with Canada.
Anything else?
Migrants should be making these areas utopias. You said they were great for the economy.
I'd imagine it would literally not have any movement at all from current levels - but you know that already.
What we would see is less crime - more native employment at higher wages - more social cohesion in the country
All things that you don't think matter.
sturg33
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Good lord this dude goes to the archives to find random ass data points to deflect
nsacpi
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eh i compared 2025 job growth (December 2025 versus December 2024) in the U.S. and Canada
and 2025 stock market appreciation
nsacpi
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LIfe expectancy in blue states has gone up in recent decades similar to how they have gone up in Canada, Germany, etc
Red states are an entirely different story. I guess they just unlucky, fat or something.
I wonder why a country that flooded their streets with migrants would get low value low productivity jobs while anohter country that deported those same low value low productive migrants would have job losses.
I also wonder why a country with a bloated federal governemtn would have additional job growth while another that dramatically slashed its size would have negative job growth
ITS ALL A MYSTERY GUYS!
MUST BE THE GREAT MIGRANTS!
sturg33
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Thats a topic you wont wanna dive too deep on
nsacpi
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I might discover lagging life expectancy is a sign of good governance.
sturg33
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You might discover demographics matter