Being politically correct to the stifling level Canada reaches doesn't come without a cost. At the very least, when you split your political representatives evenly by gender, you don't have the best people.
And qualified people are not going to be satisfied with "because it's 2016" as a reason for not even trying.  
Combine that with a national inferiority complex, a refusal to take advantage of potential synergies by working with the U.S. rather than interjecting nationalism into every facet of life, from defending one of the worst health care systems to the denial of social problems  are not offset by having a couple of ranked universities.
The obsession with the U.S. , all of it critical, is indicative of a society that just ain't right. At a minimum of 3 articles a day on Trump for two years, every single one filled with vitriol, and not one with an opposing opinion, even if it came from a campaign worker, is a sign of a society not destined for great entrepreneurial success.