RE:RE:RE:RE:Canada not in great shapeThe "Not in Great Shape" comments are 100 % fo cused on Canada's fiscal and economic realities.
Absolutely zero to do with social and life style conditions.
Those comments and others like them can't be ignored any longer.
Our international competitiveness has declined terribly in the last 10 years or so along with worker productivity (ranked 28 or 29 out of 30+ OECD countries.)
Our public service accounts for much more of Canada's total payroll as a percent than is the case with most, if not all, of those other OECD nations.
Much as some wish differently, it is impossible to publicly spend our way to fiscal health.
Much more must be directed toward R&D, Industrial use of our own resources and less to government/ quasi government entities.