Canada's Economy Is Winning and Nobody Realizes It

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a daily tripwire for readers of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here .

Canada is kinda like that one friend who is a hot mess. You can never pin her down because she’s always trying to put out some sort of fire — often of her own creation. She prefers tinned fish over fresh fish. She has a strange obsession with baby crabs. And when she arrives 40 minutes late to after-work drinks, she tells your group, exasperated, “I almost drove into a feral super pig on my way here!” Her outfit — which she tells you is made from “post-industrial waste fiber” — looks chic, in annoyingly effortless way. And even though you’ve known her for what feels like 156 years, you’re still learning new stuff about her – like how she apparently can’t swim. And how Nickelback made her Spotify Wrapped last year. Her stories are borderline unbelievable, but you hang on to her every word. One time, an airport detected cocaine in her shampoo and she was wrongfully detained. Rumor has it that her dad was involved in a 14-year hot dog bun price-fixing scheme. And her mom recently won a conch shell-blowing contest in Key West while on vacation.