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Why do Americans think Canada is a socialist country? - Satellite - 01-18-2013 09:54 AM
Do Americans not understand what socialism is? I'm tired of my country being falsely labelled as "socialist". Canada has a very free and competitive market, a very healthy economy. Having universal healthcare like every other industrialized nation (except the US) does not make Canada suddenly socialist, because that's not what socialism is. Universal healthcare is no more socialist than public education or a police department is. In Canada, we have very high taxes, but high taxes isn't "socialist" either.
Socialism is when the state dictates economic production. Socialism is when the state controls the market. How is Canada "socialist"?
Why do YOU think Canada is "socialist"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
- big al - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
becuse they are unamerican, and a communist dicktatorship.
- spot the cat - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
only the brain-dead ditto-heads that listen to rush, or faux nues
- Katie - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
Fox News would not be allowed in Canada. The Canadian economy is 50% under government control. Free speech is limited.
Also Canadians freeload off American military protection. They spend little on national defence and expect Americans to pay to protect them. In this regard they are much like socialist Europe.
- mammothgrass857 - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
Healthcare, medicine.
Other than that I don't know or think much about Camada. Or care for that matter.
- FreetobeFree - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
I don't know much about Canada. it would be nice if I could have a political conversation with a Canadian.
- hugetiger762 - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
you don't let people starve to death and you refuse to punish people for poverty by allowing them to die through lack of medical care
your are socialists
- LR - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
No.
Many Americans do not understand the concept of socialism. It's a word devoid of meaning here and is now applied to anyone the far right doesn't like.
- mikal_1978 - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
It's easier than doing research and having to deal with "facts".
- zzsleepur - 01-18-2013 10:02 AM
you do not have a healthy economy. Your health care system is a bust...your country ADMITTED THAT. You pay 47 percent of your pay into health care you cant' use and come to AMERICA to get better care with.
The Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) is the name of two different but related parties that have existed in Canadian history. The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada. The first Socialist Party of Canada existed from 1904 to 1925; the second has existed since June 1931 when it was relaunched by some members of the first party, but has not run a candidate at the federal level since 1961.
In 1921, most of the Marxist members left the SPC to join the Workers Party, which was the legal wing of the new Communist Party of Canada. In 1925, the Socialist Party formally disbanded. Many of its remaining members joined the Independent Labour Party.
A new Socialist Party of Canada was founded in June 1931 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by several former party members. While it claimed continuity with the original party, this claim was disputed by various members of the original party. The new party adopted the policies of the Socialist Party of Great Britain which rejected Leninism, social democracy and trade unionism in favour of a belief in "revolutionary Marxism and democratic revolution."
The Socialist Party continued to publish socialist manifesto leaflets through the years. When funds permitted, it ran candidates in elections. In the late 1970s, the head office was moved from Winnipeg to Victoria, British Columbia. The membership of the Socialist Party continued to decline, and the party admits that it never managed to live up to the "success and glamour" of the old party. The party has not wavered from the original policies that it adopted seventy years ago.
The Socialist Party promotes the ideal of utopian socialism. It seeks to achieve this by distributing socialist material around the world. The party believes it must spread the word to the world, and that socialism must be implemented everywhere at the same time in order to work.
The bulk of current party members are in British Columbia and Ontario. It publishes a journal, Imagine, and distributes the literature of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
The Socialist Party of Canada is a member of the World Socialist Movement along with its "companion parties", the Socialist Party of Great Britain, the World Socialist Party (Ireland), World Socialist Party of Australia, World Socialist Party (New Zealand), and World Socialist Party of the United States.
NEED WE SAY MORE? You are not Canadian or you would know this stuff!