Hey Commmoner - 
Its all relative.  Relatively speaking Canada is in much worse economic and financial shape than the US - for example  Canada has about one tenth the population of the US
is $2.3T in debt (source: the Financial post), 
has the 31st best healthcare system in the world (source: World Health Organization statistics; 2016 data), 
and has zero holdings in gold bullion (the US has the most in the world at just under 10,000 tons) 
the US like Germany, Japan and China are economic superpowers - on the other hand the bulk of Canada's wealth comes from its appreciable stash of natural resources