
People ask me about Canada when I travel. I always tell them that Canada is the least racist country I know.
More than half the citizens of Toronto and Vancouver are foreign born.
These days the economy is thriving so we need not look for someone to blame.
Canada is the only big industrialised country to notch up consistent surpluses both in its federal budgets and in its trade and current accounts. For five years it has had the G8’s fastest growth.
Canada now has the world’s second-biggest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia.
More in a recent Economist magazine article: