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全球最差！加拿大在這些排名中居然墊底！
【加拿大都市網】經常在網上衝浪的人可能會看到這張由專欄作家Stephen Lautens編輯的圖表，它匯集了11個國際指數的榜單，顯然加拿大名列前茅。“加拿大真的不行了嗎？我不這麽想。世界也這麽想。”標題寫道。
當然，這僅僅說明了部分事實。雖然加拿大可能在“生活質量”和“和平”等抽象指數中占主導地位，但在許多實證指標中，加拿大在發達國家中被列為最差的國家之一。
加拿大有很多讓人喜歡的地方，但下麵是一個並不全麵的清單，列出了加拿大確實非常糟糕的方麵。
在經合組織（OECD）中加拿大的房價是最貴的
經合組織（OECD）本質上是一個由全球38個最發達國家組成的俱樂部。這38個國家在房價的承受程度上，加拿大顯然是冠軍（最差的）。
經合組織(OECD)的分析師通過比較平均房價和平均收入來對可承受性進行排名，根據他們最新的季度排名，加拿大的工資與住房成本是最不相符的國家中排名第一。
加拿大擁有世界上最昂貴的無線網費用
芬蘭電信分析師Rewheel每年都會對全球無線網服務最貴的國家進行排名。去年，加拿大再次占據榜首。
從多個指標來看，加拿大是世界上移動數據成本最高的地方。分析人士發現，平均每個加拿大人要花費至少相當於100歐元的費用，才能獲得一個包含至少100g移動數據的手機套餐。在歐盟大部分地區，這種手機套餐的價格不到40歐元。
急症護理床位比例最低
加拿大的衛生係統受到新冠的打擊尤其嚴重，因為大多數醫院即使在繁榮時期也處於崩潰邊緣。
在大流行期間，各省急診室被迫關閉。加拿大健康信息研究所(Canadian Institute for Health Information)的一項排名為我們提供了一個線索。
當與其他國家進行比較時，加拿大的人均急症病床數量排在最後，盡管與瑞典持平。加拿大每1000人中有2個急診床位，而法國是3.1個，德國是6個。
擁有全球“房地產泡沫”最嚴重的兩個城市
至少15年來，加拿大一直是過熱房地產市場排名的常客。瑞銀(UBS)最新發布的全球房地產市場“泡沫”城市指數也不例外。
在2021年的指數中，多倫多的泡沫風險僅次於法蘭克福，溫哥華排在第6位。除了德國，加拿大是唯一一個有兩個城市進入前十名的國家。
背負新冠肺炎債務的速度比任何國家都快
新冠肺炎疫情帶來了人類文明史上最嚴重的全球債務積累。在國際債務危機中，加拿大仍然比其他國家負債更多。
去年，彭博社的分析師追蹤了每個國家在新冠大流行的第一年裏積累的公共和私人債務的速度。加拿大的總債務負擔相當於GDP的352%。
雖然有少數國家(日本、法國和香港)在疫情結束後的總債務負擔更高，但就債務積累的速度而言，加拿大的排名高於所有國家。
溫哥華港(幾乎)是世界上效率最低的港口
去年，就在全球供應鏈危機爆發之際，世界銀行決定對全球370個主要港口的表現進行排名。
作者考慮了港口讓船隻等待的時間，以及船員卸貨所需的時間等因素。當所有因素加在一起時，溫哥華港在370個港口中排名368。得分較低的隻有洛杉磯港和長灘港。
多倫多皮爾遜機場是世界上延誤最嚴重的機場
航班延誤是另一個讓整個世界都感到頭疼的問題。然而，加拿大仍然超過了所有這些國家。上個月，CNN利用FlightAware網站的數據，找出了航班延誤率最高的機場。
排名第一的是多倫多皮爾遜機場(Toronto Pearson)， 52%的離港航班出現了某種程度的延誤。而且遙遙領先！
排名第二的法蘭克福航班延誤率僅為45.4%。多倫多也是航班取消排名的一個有力競爭者。多倫多6.9%的定期航班從未起飛，在全球最差機場中排名第四。
世界上外國投資最差的經濟體之一
卡爾加裏大學(University of Calgary) 2020年的一項研究跟蹤了2015年至2019年期間流入發達國家的外國投資。
在此期間，榜單上幾乎所有國家的外國現金都出現了激增。愛爾蘭名列榜首，得益於其外國投資增長逾115%。實際上隻有四個國家的外國投資出現了下降:墨西哥、巴西、澳大利亞和加拿大。
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加拿大商業委員會(Business Council of Canada)的一份報告也注意到了同樣的趨勢。報告總結道:“加拿大對外國直接投資的開放程度在經合組織中排名第二。”
我們開的是世界上最費油的車
2019年，國際能源署(International Energy Agency)調查了全球私人汽車車隊的燃油經濟性。幾乎在每一項指標上，加拿大都在駕駛不必要的巨大、耗油的車輛方麵走在了前列。
每行駛一公裏，加拿大人平均消耗更多的燃料，排放更多的二氧化碳。加拿大的汽車也是最大和最重的(僅次於美國)。雖然我們可以很方便地把這歸咎於加拿大是一個地廣人稀、寒冷的國家，有很多重工業，但我們的排名遠遠超過了許多其他有類似情況的國家。你怎麽看？
'Worst in the world': Here are all the rankings in which Canada is now last
Most unaffordable housing, highest cellphone bills and worst rate of acute care beds, to name a few
If you spend any time on social media, it’s likely that you’ve seen this graphic compiled by columnist Stephen Lautens that assembles 11 international indices which feature Canada near the top spot. “Canada is broken? I don’t think so. Neither does the world,” reads a caption.
Naturally, it only tells a partial picture. While Canada may dominate abstract indices such as “quality of life” and “peace,” there are plenty of far more empirical indicators in which we measurably rank as among the worst in the developed world.
There’s plenty to like about Canada, but below is a not-at-all comprehensive list of all the ways in which we are indeed very broken.
We have the most unaffordable housing in the OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is essentially a club of the world’s 38 most developed countries. And when these 38 are ranked against each other for housing unaffordability, Canada emerges as the clear champion. OECD analysts rank affordability by comparing average home prices to average incomes, and according to their latest quarterly rankings Canada was No. 1 for salaries that were most out of whack with the cost of a home.
Housing by price to income ratio for the second quarter of 2022. That’s Canada on the extreme right. PHOTO BY OECD
We have the world’s most expensive wireless costs
Every year, the Finnish telecom analyst Rewheel ranks the world’s most expensive countries for wireless services. And last year, Canada once again dominated. Across several metrics, Canada was found to be the most expensive place in the world for mobile data. Analysts found that it would cost the average Canadian the equivalent of at least 100 Euros to obtain a cell phone plan with at least 100 gigabytes of mobile data. Across much of the EU, that kind of cell phone plan could be had for less than 40 Euros.
Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of mobile data as companies in France or Ireland. PHOTO BY REWHEEL
We have the lowest rate of acute care beds among peer countries
Canada’s health system was particularly walloped by COVID-19 due to the simple fact that most of our hospitals are at the breaking point even in good times. Multiple times during the pandemic, provinces were forced into shutdown by rates of COVID that had barely been noticed in better-prepared countries. A ranking by the Canadian Institute for Health Information provides one clue as to why. When ranked against peer countries, Canada’s rate of per-capita acute care beds was in last place, albeit tied with Sweden. Canada has two acute care beds for every 1,000 people, against 3.1 in France and six in Germany.
Two of the planet’s “bubbliest” real estate markets are in Canada
For at least 15 years now, Canada has been a regular contender on rankings of overheated housing markets. And the latest UBS index of world cities with “bubbly” real estate markets is no exception. In their 2021 index, Toronto was second only to Frankfurt in terms of bubble risk, while Vancouver ranked sixth. Aside from Germany, Canada was the only country that saw two of its cities in the top ten.
Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely “bubble risks,” and they’re both in Canada. PHOTO BY UBS GLOBAL REAL ESTATE BUBBLE INDEX 2021
We racked up COVID debt faster than anyone else
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the most feverish global accumulation of debt in the history of human civilization. So it’s rather remarkable that amidst this international monsoon of debt, Canada still managed to out-debt everyone else. Last year, analysts at Bloomberg tracked each country’s rate of public and private debt accumulated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada came in with an overall debt burden equivalent to 352 per cent of GDP. While a handful of countries (Japan, France and Hong Kong) came out of the pandemic with higher overall debt burdens, Canada outranked all of them when it came to how quickly that debt had been accumulated.
Containers on rail cars waiting to be shipped east by rail at the Port of Vancouver Tuesday, June 21, 2022. PHOTO BY (PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE/ PNG)
The Port of Vancouver is (almost) the most inefficient in the world
Last year — just as the global supply chain crisis got going — the World Bank decided to rank the performance of the world’s 370 major ports. Authors weighed factors such as how long the ports kept ships waiting, and how long crews took to unload a vessel. And when everything was added together, the Port of Vancouver ranked 368 out of 370. The only places with worse scores were the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. And it’s not like our other ports are much better. If Vancouver is too gummed up, you can always sail north to Prince Rupert, which ranks 339 out of 370.
Take that, Los Angeles and Long Beach. PHOTO BY WORLD BANK GROUP
Queues at Toronto Pearson International Airport. PHOTO BY PETER J. THOMPSON/NATIONAL POST
Toronto Pearson is the world’s most-delayed airport
Flight delays are another category in which basically the entire world is feeling the pinch. And yet, Canada still managed to outdo all of them. Last month, CNN used data from the website FlightAware to figure out which airports were seeing the highest rates of flight delays. In the number one spot was Toronto Pearson, with 52 per cent of all flights out of the airport experiencing some kind of delay. And it was a commanding lead; the second-place finisher, Frankfurt, only managed to see 45.4 per cent of its flights delayed. Toronto was also a contender in flight cancellations; with 6.9 per cent of its scheduled flights never getting off the ground, it ranked fourth worst in the world.
We’re one of the world’s worst economies for foreign investment
A 2020 study out of the University of Calgary tracked foreign investment flows into a cross-section of developed countries between 2015 and 2019. Virtually every country on the list saw a surge in foreign cash during that period; Ireland topped out the ranking thanks to its foreign investment climbing by more than 115 per cent. Only four countries actually saw a reduction in foreign investment: Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada. A report by the Business Council of Canada noticed the same trend. “Canada is the second-worst in the OECD on openness to foreign direct investment,” it concluded.
That’s Canada to the left. PHOTO BY UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY PUBLICATIONS
We drive the most fuel-inefficient vehicles in the world
In 2019, the International Energy Agency examined the fuel economy of the world’s private car fleets. On almost every measure, Canada led the pack in driving unnecessarily huge, gas-guzzling vehicles. Per kilometre driven, the average Canadian burned more fuel and emitted more carbon dioxide than anyone else. Canadian cars were also the largest and (second only to the U.S.) the heaviest. While it would be convenient to blame this on Canada being a sparse, cold country with lots of heavy industry, our ranking was well beyond plenty of other countries where that was similarly the case.
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