Is it really an accepted fact or your opinion Sir Joe?
I did not say that it was the accepted fact or my opinion, VanIsle. What I said was that there is some objective evidence for saying that Canada is the best country in the world. United nations survey regarding quality of life invariably puts Canada at the top or very near the top. Quality of life in Canada is one of the best (if not the best) in the world (even with Harper in power).
If our government is the so called best, then why aren't we the super power? If our gov't is so great, why is there so much crime?
Nobody said that our government was the best, VanIsle. What the UN survey says is that quality of life is the best or one of the best in Canada. And Canada can never be a super power, we just don’t have the population. Thus China has been a superpower for a long time now, even when people there were very poor. Even now China’s standard of living is considerably lower than that of Canada, yet it is a super power because of its population.
And sure there is crime in Canada, but many other countries have much more crime. Compared to the rest of the world, Canada does not do badly at all. And again, nowhere did I say that our government is great.
I don't see where we have any bragging rights just yet.
We have bragging rights according to the UN survey. That is the only systematic, objective survey which compares the quality of life in different countries and Canada invariably does very well in the survey.
Incidentally, what I said is that my personal, anecdotal evidence is consistent with the survey. I have first hand experience with USA, Britain and Canada and I think Canada is the best country of the three, far better than USA or Britain.