Golda Meir’s only gripe with Moses was that “he took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.” Perhaps Moses should have gone to Canada. Canada’s Gross Domestic Product doubled between 2002 and 2010, and from 2008 to the end of 2011, inflation-adjusted economic output grew 2.8% in Canada vs. 1.7% in the United States.