International risk-assessment firm rates Canada highly but not on top

I tried to see where USA stood, but did not find an answer. However, the map does show Canada as low risk, and USA as medium risk. That probably means we stand much better than our neighbour.

We can do better if we try to be like the other Western nations that are doing better than us instead of trying to be like the USA. We have the resources and the manpower to be self-sustainable, yet we chose to be reliant on countries that can't even feed their own people.

Don't know if I buy the argument that an aging population is an economic time bomb, as implied here. Japan has had a stagnant population for decades and, nothwithstanding their catastrophic earthquake, the country is doing quite well. Besides, the continued growth that is implied in maintaining an artificially youthful population is clearly not sustainable, so in the long run something has to give.

@Mertl. Dude. Can't you ever just publish the whole list? Is it too much to ask? If critical information is the essence of the article, then be intelligent about the compositional presentation. Eh.

SO how does Mexico rank?

By Steve Mertl you sucks man I am Canadian and your british magazine what you talking about here all the times advertising Canada ?

i see three police cars a night/canada is overboard safe

Halifax is not a safe city anymore,trouble and violence every night!

QUOTE: "A country's resilience to external and internal shocks is built up over time, so as the BRICs political risk environment improves we might see resilience strengthen, but our results reveal this is yet to happen."

So let's see, we have a commentator from a country that is (at a guess) less than 300 years old stating that a "country's resilience to external and internal shocks is built up over time" in reference to at least one other country that is millennia old (China) .

Do you think that a country that has existed for thousands of years just might know a thing or two about "resilience?"

Canada needs to step away from America before they pull us down with them

Canada! please don't go out at night in Winnipeg. lol

I need job in Canada , and you show this sucks ?

Opinions are like anuses. Everybody has one. So a british consulting firm wants to believe a whole bunch of other countries are more stable than we are. So what. These are subjective interpretations of both subjective and objective criteria. At the end of the day, we don't need a british consultant to tell us what we already know: that Canada is a stable country, has been so for decades, and will likely remain so for years to come.

And, so who cares?

Even though we are much safer then our neighbors that doesn't mean it can't happen to us i mean they don't really care who goes down with them during war !!!

How can Canada be safe when the justice system favour the criminals?

By the time Harper's done we'll be as bad as Camden New Jersey.

So who's the safest? Antarctica or the moon?

I'm sure Canadians need to be lectured about security by a Brit! Go home yob!

In Canada you may not risk the possibility of flood or an earthquake et cetera.

However. Re safety. It's a relative term that collectively can be traumatic on a long term basis. For many. Life in Canada is hell nor safe.

In Canada. You have a lot of drug addicts and mental patients. They are unreliable and unpredictable. Bad stuff happens to those in the general community. A lot of people are on welfare or criminals. They are not angels. The numbers of working poor are growing. Much in Canada goes unreported. Student suicides and bullying is on the rise.

So does it matter that there are no tsunamis and earthquakes in Canada? A lot of Canadians will say life in Canada is hell. Why else would Toronto build the largest mental hospital in the world? Because there's a definite need... People's mental health is constantly under threat in Canada.