And today we heard that 23,000 jobs were lost last month when economists had expected growth of 90,000. This is good news if you have stocks, funds or a portfolio with equity exposure – because markets are cheering. (Clunky tractor-maker Caterpillar, for example, just had a $20-billion revenue quarter since it’s selling so many turbines to AI data centres.) Given the fact the US economy is more than ten times the size of ours, this was an elephantine advance. Certainly compared to the dominant nation and economy in the world, little Canada is a haven of stability, rationality and calm.