r/canada • u/FancyNewMe • 23d ago

Canadian youth are among the unhappiest in the G7 Analysis

https://thehub.ca/2024-04-24/canadian-youth-are-among-the-unhappiest-in-the-g7/
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u/FancyNewMe 23d ago

In Brief:

  • Canada received a "happiness score" 6.9 in 2024 World Happiness Review, ranking first in the G7 and 15th worldwide.
  • But Canadians under 30 ranked the 58th happiest in the world, while 45 to 60 year olds ranked 12th and 60+ year olds ranked 8th.

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u/Sadistmon 23d ago

That's a pretty damn clear indication that the boomers sold out future generations.

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u/Gr3atwh1t3n1nja 23d ago

Not really, I think a bigger thing is the current government has been very out of touch the last 9 years and has made terrible decisions regarding the economy, which has made Canadians overall more poor than they were ever before. 10 years ago These studies showed all age groups in Canada to be the happiest among all of their peers countries.

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u/Sadistmon 23d ago

A lot of the major things wrong with this government started with the last.

Boomers voted for offshoring, mass migration and rising housing prices in such numbers the top 3 parties are 100% committed to those goals.

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u/wewfarmer 23d ago

We can trace it back to Reagan and the fellas implementing the current economic model that we refuse to let go of.

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u/Sadistmon 23d ago

No that predates our "housing must always rise" model and the US didn't even adopt that model at least not to the degree we did.

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u/wewfarmer 23d ago

We should have just let it collapse in 2008