First of all, comparing populations and implying that it's easier to balance budgets in a smaller country is misleading. Sound financial management is sound financial management.

Secondly, from what I've been able to find, Canada's budget is about $170 billion (2003) while California's is about $102 billion (2003-2004).

Canada's population (32,103,169 right now) is slightly less than that of California (35,484,453 in 2003).

A State or Province budget is a lot different that that of a country.

But back to your point... what was it again?

Re: the Cold War. Yes, the US spent more than Canada, I'm sure per capita as well as (of course) total. If we're playing that kind of game, Canada's Foreign Investment per capita is double that of the US. So there.

But back to your point... what was it again?