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We have that in Canada too (besides the trains) and we're not nearly as backwards economically as most EU countries. EU has been stagnating for the last decade while Canada has maintained a consistent growth rate.

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Incorrect. It's a bit problematic to compare EU as a whole, because countries join and leave, but if you compare bigger EU countries to Canada, Canada is not significantly better.

Also Canada has a higher real population growth which skews the data (per capita would be better), and on the per capita basis Canada looks pretty bleak.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

(nominal)

  Canada: 2000: 742B 2018: 1710B (230% growth)
  Germany: 2000: 1940B 2018: 3940B (203% growth)
  France: 2000: 1360B 2018: 2018: 2770B (203% growth)
  Poland: 2000: 198B 2018: 585B (295% growth)

(PPP)

  Canada: 2000: 916B 2019: 1970B (215%)
  Germany: 2000: 2390B 2019: 4693B (196%)
  France: 2000: 1683B 2019: 3241B (192%)
  Poland: 2000: 451B 2019: 1316B (291%)

Per capita (PPP):

  Canada: 2000: 29900 2019: 51600 (172%)
  Germany: 2000: 29400 2019: 56400 (191%)
  France: 2000: 28600 2019: 49800 (174%)
  Poland: 2000: 11700 2019: 34700 (296%)

Edit: my mistake, you said "last decade", but the 2010-2019 comparison is even more damning to Canada, 7% growth over 10 years vs 14% for Germany and 25% for Poland. (GDP - nominal).

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