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Canada already flirts with the Nordic model. We just won’t commit.
We’ve got public healthcare, some subsidized childcare, decent parental leave. Look at Sweden and Finland and you see the same ideas taken further: free university, stronger income supports, deeper investment in the safety net. Both run private, competitive, capitalist economies. No nationalized industries, no central planning. Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US.
The lesson isn’t “go socialist.” It’s that a country can run hard-nosed capitalism and still tax broadly (not just “the rich,” everyone pays in) to fund things that actually improve people’s lives.
Canada keeps doing this halfway. Universal healthcare but a housing and cost-of-living crisis. Talk of expanding social programs but no real appetite for the tax base that pays for them in Sweden or Finland.
So which is it: are we willing to fund the Nordic-style safety net Canadians say they want, or are we going to keep half-measuring it and blaming the results on the wrong thing?
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