Washington Times op-ed piece notes Canada's strong banks, stable housing market.
Canada has strong banks, a stable real estate market and rock-bottom corporate tax rates, and it's about time Americans paid attention, according to a Washington Times op-ed piece. ". . . Our well-mannered Canadian neighbours have pulled their act together. We could learn a lot from them," writes Jim Bacon in an article that compares Canada to quiet, orderly neighbour and Mexico to a bachelor pad with "drunken parties" and the "occasional gunshot eruptions." Canada's good behaviour has kept it off America's radar until now, said Bacon, who hails from Richmond, Virginia and has never been to Canada.
"You all behave yourselves, you are well-mannered and you don't create a lot of problems for us," he said. But it's that good behaviour chronicled by the International Monetary Fund and international media that inspired Bacon to pen the piece.
"It smacked me with a two-by-four," he said in an interview with Postmedia News. "Everywhere else was showing deteriorating financial conditions and Canada was looking pretty good by comparison."Bacon credits Canada's low corporate tax rate, strict fiscal discipline in the 1990s, housing policies and stringent bank system for the country's economic pre-eminence. full story -->>
The article does not mention that Canada has for the most part, by being involved to a large extent an imperialist foreign policy along with the propensity for war. This is one of the major factors dragging down the u.s. economy.
Posted by: omaha houses for sale | Monday, March 21, 2011 at 10:54 AM
What? Canada's 'Imperialist foreign policy', 'propensity for war' ??
You are kidding me right?
What is dragging down the US economy is your lack of regulation, adequate government, greedy capitalism and curruption in your system. Period.
Leave it to an American to point a finger and blame on those doing better then them!
Posted by: John Craig | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM