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Originally Posted by BigBen
If we are socialist, then so are you guys.
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Bingo. To sit down here and shout 'socialists!' up north as if we are any better or different asks a lot of the listener. We all know what socialism is.
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so·cial·ism n.
1 Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
2 The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved
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The goods in Canada are not owned collectively by the citizens or by the Canadian government. The Canadian government does not control the Canadian econemy. I hope this is clear.
Canada is a parliamentary representative democracy and is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. If anything, Canada is farther from socialism than the United States in that they have a queen as head of state, where as we have a president (although the positions are not entirely different).