Last week US Vice President J.D. Vance pointed out a home truth about the politicians who have run Canada and Britain this last decade or so. They’ve made some terrible calls, especially as regards mass inwards immigration. To start, Vance pointed to my native Canada and noted that it now has the highest foreign-born share of the population of the entire G7. And its living standards have flatlined. Take the start of 2016 as your baseline for GDP per person. Remember, then ignore, that at that time the US was already noticeably wealthier than any other Anglosphere country. So its starting baseline was higher. But ignore that. And then deem 2016 wealth per person to be 100 in each country. Know what? Nine years later you find it is 117 in the US. But in Canada it’s just 103 – virtually no per-person GDP growth in a decade. And, the US Vice President also pointed out that Britain is barely any better. The UK is languishing at about 108. (As Vance didn’t mention Australia I looked up the stats and did a back-of-the-envelope calculation and we seem to be between Britain and Canada, call it 106, and then thank God for Canada or we’d be bottom of the table – and these are the Turnbull, Morrison, Albo years.)
A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World,…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 28, 2025
h/t Mauser
