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The Canadian Century in the Wall Street Journal

By December 1, 2010March 18th, 2020No Comments

The Wall Street Journal – the most influential newspaper in the US and an opinion-leader worldwide –  yesterday highlighted Canadian Century in a news story about how Canada is emerging from the shadow. Phred Dvorak wrote:

Some Canadians are even suggesting what would have been unthinkable just 15 years ago, when an editorial in The Wall Street Journal dubbed Canada an “honorary member of the Third World”; in many ways, Canada now stands to outshine its neighbor to the south.
“We don’t have to accept being second fiddle,” says Brian Lee Crowley, managing director at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an Ottawa policy think tank, and lead author of “The Canadian Century—Moving Out of America’s Shadow,” published in May. “We have the potential of enjoying a very long run of higher levels of economic dynamism, prosperity, success than the United States.”