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Posthaste: Five reasons why Canada would not be better off as the 51st state

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I personally take umbrage at Trumps claiming that all of Canada should be one state.  Either it is a negotiation strategy to insult Canadians by lumping the second largest country as one mere 'state' of the United States South of the 49th parallel.

A Bank of Nova Scotia VP has fact-checked five of Trump's claims.

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Financial Post: Canada would not be better off as the 51st State


United States President Donald Trump, while signing another executive order, this time imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum, repeated the idea that Canada would be better off as the 51st state.His statements have many Canadians up in arms, but it’s also given them a new gear to express their national pride.Besides negating tariffs, higher average incomes in the U.S. have been touted as another selling point for erasing the border between the two countries. But there’s lots more to consider when comparing the neighbour nations, according to Derek Holt, vice-president and head of capital markets economics at the Bank of Nova Scotia. “Canada ranks only slightly behind the U.S. on median household incomes,” he said in a note on Tuesday. “And there is more to the picture than incomes. Much more.” Holt looked at a series of measures, from income inequality to life expectancy to urban liveability, and said the U.S. comes up short compared to Canada. Here is a look at five of the 10 measures he examined and how each country stacks up.

Hold then goes on to explain how Canada stacks up against Trumps assertions:

  1. Liveability
  2. Income inequality
  3. Federal budgets
  4. Life expectancy
  5. Health care

 


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