> People like you can fantasize that somehow going over the ocean to remote countries can offset going over a truck to the world's largest economy
Is it still the largest economy? By many numbers, it is not.
The United Kingdom used to be in a similar position and Ireland was like Canada. Nowadays, Ireland does not need to cave in to its neighbor's demands.
It is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
EDIT: Ireland very cleverly reduced corporate income taxes to lure in many multinational corporations. Kudos to them. I doubt Canada can replicate it. We have resources and resources are hard to move around. I hope we can get our economy to produce more added value products but so far that hasn't worked out.
> It is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
As I said, by many numbers, it is not (and you know it):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
I did not know that. It's not a metric I follow. I think it's unfair of you to say "and you know it". It's a good data point and I'm going to not step in and debate it .. because you know it ;) just kidding. I'm spending too much time getting emotionally attached to these stupid online threads.
> I think it's unfair of you to say "and you know it"
I apologize then, I thought that as we used the same source, you would have noticed the many references in the link you shared to the PPP ranking.