Do you even know that Canada has more regulation and government intervention than the United States?
Yes. A LOT more. This is pretty common knowledge, and any amount of research will back it up.
Are you sure that your quality of life and healthcare system are really all that great? There's evidence that quality of life varies wildly across Canada and your healthcare system isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Again, yes. Note, I never said our system or standard of living were perfect. It is substantially better than in the US though. Most of the countries that are doing better than Canada have far more socialism in their governments.
On average, we live longer than Americans, those longer lives are much healthier, a far greater percentage of our population has access to excellent care, the care they receive is among the best in the world, and people don't break the bank visiting the doctor, the ER, or receiving medication they need.
There's certainly room for improvement, but between Canada and the US when it comes to healthcare, it's no contest.
How are those Inuits doing? Wasn't it you who said you can judge a society by how well it treats it most underprivileged?
Most of the Inuit population in this country choose to live outside of the system. In fact, you'd probably love it. No taxes, and they still receive some government services.
Yes, there are dealings from our history with our native population that we're less than proud of, but none of it had to do with how much or little socialist policy or regulation there was. It's a completely separate matter. Plus, again, coming from the US, you don't exactly have any high ground to speak from there.
Is your standard of excellence merely how a country stacks up to the United States?
For the sake of this discussion, the comparisons are largely between Canada and the US because it's a clear side by side comparison of a country that has more regulation and socialist policies vs a country with less. On the world stage, Canada does well across the board. There's room for improvement, but by any metric you choose, we're doing quite well.
Did you know that the U.S. NEVER manifested anything as bad as the Great Depression or current recession before central banking?
Are you... are you actually using the Great Depression in
favor of your argument? One of the top causes of the Great Depression was a lack of regulation.
Again, what you're not getting is that no one is saying we should get rid of capitalism entirely. We're just saying it isn't a magic fix-all. Every developed country in the world has a mixed-market system that combines capitalism and socialism to varying degrees, and it's like that for a reason. Neither system should be applied 100%. It has been said over and over. It's all about balance, rather than blindly following one ideology.