Canada Quietly Stabilizes While America Trips Over Its Own Boots
Housing improves, jobs hold, trade diversifies... and south of the border it’s pure political slapstick
You ever notice how the loudest house on the street is usually the one on fire?
Meanwhile the quiet one next door is repainting the porch and fixing the roof.
That’s Canada and the U.S. right now.
If you only watched headlines, you’d think we’re doomed up here and paradise lives down south.
Flip the numbers around and the picture changes fast.
Canada’s not collapsing.
We’re… boring.
And boring is exactly what you want when you’re running an economy.
First… housing (the thing everyone’s been panicking about)
According to economists cited by TD Economics, Canada is building homes at an annualized pace of about 264,000 units.
That’s near post-war record territory.
Not “we’re trying.”
Actually building.
At the same time, Statistics Canada reported something you almost never hear…
Population fell by about 76,000 in one quarter.
So supply is rising…
Demand pressure isn’t exploding…
That’s how prices cool without a crash.
Which is exactly what’s happening.
Average prices slid gradually from about $710K to $673K.
No housing apocalypse.
Just air slowly leaking out of an overinflated balloon.
The Bank of Canada is expected to keep rates steady.
Wages are inching up.
Construction keeps moving.
That’s called stabilization.
It’s not sexy.
It’s functional.
Ontario’s the oddball
The GTA condo market?
Still stuffed like a garage sale nobody wants to attend.
Too many units.
Too few buyers.
So starts lag there.
But that’s regional indigestion, not a national heart attack.
Every country has one messy room.
Ours just happens to be Toronto condos.
Now compare that with the circus south of the border
While we’re quietly pouring foundations, the U.S. looks like it’s arguing with itself in the driveway.
Farmers are losing money.
Trade fights are back.
Tariffs are scrambling exports.
One U.S. senator even warned farm country is in trouble.
Meanwhile Canada supplies 85–90% of America’s potash… the fertilizer their farms literally depend on.
So they pick fights with their grocery supplier.
Genius strategy.
Jobs?
The U.S. added 22,000 jobs last month.
For an economy that size?
That’s not growth.
That’s a rounding error.
And here’s the weird part
Instead of fixing trade or jobs…
They’re debating whether the federal government should take control of elections.
Read that twice.
That’s not “policy tuning.”
That’s banana-republic energy.
You don’t stabilize a country by grabbing the ballot box.
You stabilize it by getting people paid and goods moving.
Meanwhile… the world is moving on
Consumers are shifting.
EV buyers aren’t automatically choosing American brands anymore.
Chinese manufacturers like BYD are outselling Tesla in places like the UK.
Even Canadians are warming to more non-U.S. imports.
Translation…
The planet isn’t waiting for Washington to get its act together.
Trade just flows somewhere else.
Money always finds the calmest room.
Right now?
That room looks a lot like Canada.
Here’s the part nobody says out loud
We don’t actually need America to be stable for Canada to succeed.
We just need to…
Build
Trade
Diversify
Mind our own business
If the U.S. wants to light its hair on fire every election cycle… that’s their hobby.
We don’t have to join the bonfire.
There’s a whole world out there that buys aluminum, fertilizer, lumber, food, energy, tech.
Trade isn’t loyalty.
It’s math.
My porch-level take
Stop doomscrolling U.S. chaos.
Watch our fundamentals.
Homes going up.
Rates steady.
Prices cooling.
Trade options widening.
That’s not a collapse.
That’s a country quietly tightening the bolts.
Boring wins.
Every time.
The Recap…
Canada’s numbers are quietly improving.
Housing builds near records. Prices cooling. Rates steady.
Meanwhile the U.S.?
Trade fights, weak jobs, election drama.
Turns out boring might be the superpower.
The Gut Punch…
When your neighbour’s house is on fire, you don’t copy their decorating style.
Source credit
Based on reporting and commentary from Claus Kellerman POV and publicly available economic coverage.
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