How we look to the rest of the world:
World's happiest countries 8th best (USA 14th)
Economic Freedom 6th best (USA 9th)
Life Expectancy 11th best (USA 36th)
Freedom from corruption 6th best (USA 22nd)
Out of thousands of banks,
Canada's big five and the Caisse Desjardins are counted with the fifty safest.
It's nice to know when there's a maelstrom of scary financial news sweeping into Europe, the USA and more. It's nice to know despite our shortcomings. (Didn't Canada used to come in behind the USA and wasn't the USA a little further up the lists?)
Canada - a good place to live.