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The big thing Canada and America have to face are our priorities.
We as America put our place in the world very often above the welfare of our people. Now for us it's the king of the hill, we have so many people trying forever to knock us down we're busy pushing everyone else back. This isnt always intended, much of it is economic which the government has little to do with, it's the people themselves trying to make a buck.
The Canadians have never come close to that world power status. They dont care about it either, with their allies fronting the bill of a military powerful enough to stop anyone (UK and US are powerful allies indeed). They can spend lots of its resources because something like 2% of their budget (as of last living there, back in the early 90s... but it wouldnt have changed much) on military defense. They can afford to front a bill of much more progressive and welfare systems.
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