Who cares if you used to be  "amongst the worlds biggest savers"?
In the very next sentence you describe Americans today as 'obscene spenders'.   
I don't know which boat you find yourself in along with all the other countries with decimated manufacturing but when it comes to the topic at hand that you brought up, obscene spending as measured by personal debt makes you in a boat all your own. You're number one. 
And if you're tired of "those who compare Canadians to Americans" you had better move because no one else does that but Canadians. 
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“History informs anti-black racism and racial stereotypes that are so deeply entrenched in institutions, policies and practices, that its institutional and systemic forms are either functionally normalized or rendered invisible, especially to the dominant group,” the UN officials wrote."
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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/09/24/un-report-on-canada-to-address-anti-black-racism.html