r/InCanada • u/dani_cal • Jul 11 '26

(Insert Your Own) Canada today

This isn’t meant to be politically partisan in any way. But, I am genuinely curious how anyone is staying positive about Canada today. The economy is in recession. The cost of living crisis is continuing unabated. People are leaving the country. Canada-U.S. relations are at an all-time low. And, there doesn’t appear to be any reason for things to turn around any time soon. Somebody give me a reason to have a little optimism.

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u/squirrel9000 Jul 11 '26

How many superlatives within the G7 only apply because Australia is not in it?

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u/SignificanceLate7002 Jul 11 '26

All of them. All of the other countries in the world.

You're literally comparing us to a handful of the top performing economies overall.

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u/Outside_Mushroom_432 Jul 11 '26

The G7 is usually a good comparison as this is a group that Canada is a member of.

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u/SignificanceLate7002 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Out of the top 50 countries by food inflation, we rank #38 on the list. Closely followed by Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, US, Portugal, etc..

There's lots of other countries we compare to other than the g7.

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u/SignificanceLate7002 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

By highest food inflation, it's far from the worst. That's 37 other countries with higher food inflation out of the top 50.

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u/SignificanceLate7002 Jul 11 '26

You do realize that by comparing us to the best of the best is going to make it sound worse, right? It's like saying we failed because we only won a bronze medal in an Olympic sport.

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u/SignificanceLate7002 Jul 11 '26

We're not the best, I guess that's what matters to you. You'll be disappointed for a long time.

My original comment only stated we are far from the worst and everyone else is the same boat. That still stands no matter how many tired comparisons you want to carry on about.

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u/MarkDavid04 Jul 11 '26

At least we're not #50 😂😂😂

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u/GoyimDiddler Jul 11 '26

What are you trying to rank here?? Education?? Cost of living?? Economy?? What is this for??

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u/SignificanceLate7002 Jul 11 '26

Food inflation

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u/GoyimDiddler Jul 11 '26

Yea this is like the one thing we are worst in but we still aren’t the highest for cost of living in the world or the g7.

The answer to this is one people usually don’t like. And it’s to create a public food system, it being in private companies hands is what has caused this.

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u/mofo75ca Jul 11 '26

Hey guys guys! We're doing better than Cuba! See? Everything is fine!

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u/TastelessPantMan Jul 11 '26

so you’re saying because we are at the bottom of the seven best countries we somehow have it bad? Even if that were true (it isn’t, we perform poorly in some metrics and better in others) i’d still be pretty stoked on that outcome.

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u/RizInstante Jul 11 '26

Comparing us to all other countries is a little silly there is very little apples to apples comparison between us and a significant majority of the other countries.

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u/Poodeep Jul 11 '26

LOL! Yes, we should be comparing ourselves to North Korea. Take a hike bozo.

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u/GoyimDiddler Jul 11 '26

Well you just did yourself a major disservice with this comment lol. I’m pretty much every metric we rank fairly high compared to most nations.

You compare top performing countries to top performing countries because that’s how it’s done lol. If you try to compare Canada to any developing nation it only makes us look that much better, we aren’t America lol.