Militarized Immigration

I agree with you but you're not telling the whole story. The downside of all that socialism is the higher taxes Canadians pay. If the US had taxes that high there would be rioting in the streets. So why aren't Canadians marching and burning down the capitol? Are they just too dumb? Have they been so brainwashed that they can't see that they're being fleeced and enslaved by a repressive government?

Or maybe they look at their quality of life and figure the higher taxes are worth it, that maybe government services work pretty well and they're ultimately getting their money's worth. What a novel concept.

Every successful economy in the world has some measures of both capitalism and socialism. The only question is how much of each works best. But in the US conservative zeal to eradicate all socialistic ideas, privatize everything, and cut taxes well beyond the bone means that the US has fallen way behind most other first-world countries in quality-of-life standards. And our uber-individualistic attitudes - and sneering contempt for government services - have led to an erosion of a sense of community and the concept of a public good. And there's no end in sight.