Don't think of Canada as a country. Think of it as 10 little countries with a federal government that handles big picture stuff. All the day-to-day stuff like roads, enforcement, welfare, building codes, land management, schools and health-care are handled by the provinces. It's not like the US where the feds look after big over-arching things like education. Standards and funcing are 100% set by each province in Canada. I think what you're trying to say here is
Ontario is a failed state.
It might sound funny that I'm saying this coming from Newfoundland which has literally gone bankrupt before and is always teetering on the brink of insolvency, but you have to understand nobody in Newfoundland actually gives a fuck about the government. We just want gibbs and don't give a shit if it fails and we're just a territory and Canada starts giving us that shit. 99% of the people outside the St. John's core just wants government to give them doctors and roads, but otherwise fuck off and leave everyone else alone. There's virtually no cops and no way to enforce anything because the population density outside St. John's is lower than any other province or US state. For all practical intents and purposes there is no government once you're outside St. John's and a hundred feet off the highway unless someone specifically calls the cops.
Like, if you're not from Newfoundland or haven't spent much time outside St. John's it my be hard to comprehend, but geographically, most of Newfoundland exists and always has existed in what is essentially a state of total anarchy. Nothing gets enforced outside St. John's and the bigger towns like Gander, Corner Brook and Grand Falls. You can kind of just do whatever the hell you want. For example, from Tor's Cove(40 minutes from St. John's), down the whole Southern Shore and up as far as the Salmonier area, there are a total of I think two cops. No joke, not two cop stations, not two cop cars, literally two cops. This is an area the size of Rhode Island. The last time a cop died on duty in Newfoundland was
1964. Newfoundland is the size of Cuba and has less than 500 cops. If all the cops were out on duty at the same time covering an equal area, they would have 84 square miles to cover
each.
I know I'm harping a bit and being redundant here, but I think it's hard for people who live in these big cities with a cop on every corner where they can stop and ask if you have a loisence for that knife to understand and I'm trying to drive the point home. There's barely any state to fail. We're not in a situation here where police are barely able to stop dangerous gang members from breaking into your house and taking your shit and homeless people from taking over the place. If the Newfoundland government collapsed tomorrow I probably wouldn't even notice for several days if it weren't for power generation being handled by government, and even then that shit goes down for a week every winter anyway, so it wouldn't be abnormal.
Jesus, no wonder Newfoundland wanted to join the United States.
I think Newfoundland is actually doing alright. Not financially obviously, but culturally.
Still like 95% white, higher than any other province, territory or US State, lowest immigration rates, low divorce rates, highest sense of belonging out of the entire country, lowest housing prices in the country, a fixer upper bungalow in the city is like $200,000, you can get a decent townhouse for under $200k. Birth rates are low but the people having kids are for the most part all white christians. The government is trying to bring in Muslims to prop up the population but they all leave because there aren't many jobs, unemployment rates have never not been double digit in Newfoundland, and St. John's is the windiest, rainiest, foggiest, snowiest city in the country and they are from a fucking desert. There are still no counties and people will raise hell if they try to introduce them, so if you're not in a town there are no building regulations or property taxes. Government tried to introduce mandatory garbage collection fees in these areas, but they got taken to court and it got overturned. Highest rates of gun ownership in the country. Everyone is always hunting and fishing and berry picking and burning around of Skidoos and ATVs. Most people own their house and many middle-class families, close to half over 40 I would wager, have a cabin (what we call a cottage) out in the country as well as a house. Parts of St. John's have gotten gentrified and filled with foreigners and mainlanders, but most of Newfoundland is still very much the same Newfoundland it's always been. I can drive across the whole island without seeing a single cop.
I think Newfoundland would fit into the United States very well. We're bacially a colder West Virginia. We have the highest smoking, drinking, teen pregnacy, gun ownership and obesity rates in the country.
