🇨🇦 Seven Canadian provinces trail behind most U.S. states on economic performance: study

Seven of the 10 worst jurisdictions are Canadian, and in every category Canadians are falling further behind Americans. That is the real legacy of the Trudeau era: a country loaded with bureaucracy, hollowed-out private-sector muscle, and sold the bedtime story that bigger government equals prosperity. The study reported that all 50 U.S. states had higher median employment incomes than all 10 Canadian provinces in 2024. So much for the moral-superpower brand.

It gets better. From 1999 to 2024, every Canadian province saw private-sector employment shrink as a share of total jobs, meaning the state grew faster than the productive economy everywhere. That is not an accident. It is the predictable result of a managerial class obsessed with redistribution, regulation, and ideological vanity projects while business investment collapses. Alberta, once 7th-highest in GDP per person in 1999, now ranks 25th and is still somehow Canada’s best. Ottawa’s answer will be more spending, more experts, more narratives. Decline is now a governing model.

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