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“Why is Canada beating America?” Jason Clemens asks this week in The Wall Street Journal.

Ten years ago Canada was on the skids. The Bloc Quebecois was on the rise, the IMF was glaring and Canadians were self-effacing and avidly in between, not sure if they were real unto themselves or a kind of cold-country America. At that time the Canadian dollar was converting to 75 cents American. Today it is worth $1.04 U.S and rising. What happened? How did Canada get strong?

The answer: It overcame two existential and psychological challenges, the United States and Quebec.

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