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Individualism is at the heart of what makes America, well America. Socialism or social policy is antithetical to this...
Canada has always been more or less socialist in our approach to things... I think it has to do with two factors...
1) we are a nation that has chosen compromise both with Britain and between the three nations that made up the founding of Canada (French, English, Aboriginal)
2) the weather... people don't survive Canadian winters without the help and support of the community as a whole. In large parts of the US you can live off the land all year long (in the US I was witness to rural poverty, something you just don't see in Canada). This is probably why the Scandinavians have similar policies...
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