Increasingly, our governments (federal and provincial) seek to discourage success by heavily taxing the most successful among us. Recent changes to taxation on entrepreneurs and small businesses have raised these barriers even higher.  The vast majority (>85%) of the 'wealthy', ie., the top 1% and higher, did not inherit their wealth but are self-made. Yet, one reads disparagements of the successful in our newspapers on a daily basis.  We are considered tax cheats who, despite paying more than 50% of our income in various types of tax, are still not paying a "fair share". 
Our taxation system actually limits and discourages success. In the United States successful people are admired and inspire others to be successful too.  In Canada, our 'crabs-in-a-bucket' culture fosters resentment, jealousy, suspicion, and, overwhelmingly, weakness.  As the author describes herein, our race-to-the bottom education system produces fearful rank-and-file but few tough, resilient, persistent leaders.