Canada vote 2011
Canada vote 2011
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I really don't believe Canadians are - or will ever be - ready for a social democratic government, as seen elsewhere, such as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, etc.
For one, whilst every says they love their tax-paid health care, for example, they also say in the same breath they don't like being taxed. So which is it? You can't have one without the other.
The other major spanner in the works is our proximity to the US. Other social democracies are (more or less) shielded from American influence by virtue of sheer distance; Canada most certainly is not, and people would be fooling themselves to think that proximity isn't a major policy influencer.
- Canadians complain about their health care system only because they've never lived anywhere else.********
- we are already a social democracy the question is how much do we need to bend over to the neighbours.eieio
- Harpers duty is to take it up the butt but the Canadian population can easily show more backbone.eieio
- Well, I certainly hope they do show more backbone, for a change.Continuity
- Canadians complain about their health care system only because they've never lived anywhere else.