alt Hacker News> As a Canadian, I think Canada’s primary hurdle is not a lack of engineering competence, but rather political volatility
I never said it was a problem of engineering competence, you read that into my statement
Political volatility getting projects delayed and cancelled is why we're a joke
You're right: you didn’t claim a lack of engineering competence. I introduced that distinction. Sorry. If the question is whether the Canadian society can build reliably, then governance and political instability count as part of its overall competence, not as external excuses.
I would agree with you that political volatility exists and stifles an otherwise decent country. It's very frustrating.