These statistics kind of make me feel all warm inside now that I reside in Canada. I don’t particularly like debt at any level, personal or national.
clipped from www.financialsense.com

The intent of this article is to compare the net wealth of selected nations. The net wealth figures (actually labeled as ‘Net Debt’) for the G-7 nations (US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy and Canada) can be found on the International Monetary Fund website here. It should be noted that all of the G-7 countries have greater government liabilities than assets.

Net Debt by Country
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