Actually the US economy has now been growing for two years. It just hasn’t recovered from the crash of 2008. And the reason Canada didn’t have a crash is that it never bought into the extreme laissez-faire non-regulation of its banking sector. This is of course consistent with Torah principles — commerce needs transparency and regulation. PM Harper indicated during his campaign that he did not plan to make major changes in these or other major policy areas; it is arguable that the Conservative Party of Canada is to the left of the Democratic Party in the US.
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