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Most people dont know what socialism, communism etc are and apply the term as a blanket definition for any country that provides Govt administered services rather than privately owned services. In a word NO Canada is NOT a Socialist country tho Americans like to label it as such.

Canada has a Govt administered health care system however it is NOT free - the only provinces I know of in which individual Cdn citizens dont pay for their health coverage is Ontario and Saskatchewan, tho there could be others.

Canada is a democracy, the political structure is different than the USA in that we have far too many political parties, and IMO an election process that is almost pointless because of that.

80% of Cdns can NOT vote for a certain candidate and yet he/she can still be elected. simply because there are far too many political parties in Canada. IMO Canada needs to change the process, and have a primary election as the USA does, and eliminate the "also ran" parties from the final deciding vote.

Along the same vein most people do not understand the differences between communism, maoism, leninism, socialism, dictatorships etc and label them all as communism, a lot of uneducated people associate socialism with communism etc

Socialism and communism are defined by the distribution of goods and services, if you want a very basic definition, however to understand what all of these really are you need to do some research, which isnt easy because the internet contains masses of misinformation.

Thousands of so-called professors, authors, experts have posted tons of misinformation on the internet -- so finding factual research material can be difficult

An example is referring to China as a communist Govt, it isnt. Canada as socialist, it isnt. Lazy people dont want to know, they just want an easy label to attach

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Is Canada a socialist country?

I read someone say that Canada was a socialist country.

I thought socialism meant that there are no rich or poor. is this true for Canada? Is everyone equal?

Canada employs Socialism programs, where jobs are created and funded with taxes. So, the answer is yes. Yet, Canada is also a capitalistic country, a country with Democracy, freedoms, and an expensive health care system. Taxes are. Canada is the second highest taxed country in the world, second only to France, where taxes are a ludicrous 80%. What Canadians never are told is that never, in the history of mankind, never has there been a successful civilization based on taxes. Ever. Let me point you to A Tale of two Cities. Or, how about the great Roman Empire? What, I beg the question, what is it that makes our countries with taxes believe we are any different?

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you do not have a healthy economy. Your health care system is a bust...your country ADMITTED THAT. You pay 47 percent of your pay into health care you cant' use and come to AMERICA to get better care with. The Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) is the name of two different but related parties that have existed in Canadian history. The current Socialist Party is an electorally inactive and unregistered federal political party in Canada. The first Socialist Party of Canada existed from 1904 to 1925; the second has existed since June 1931 when it was relaunched by some members of the first party, but has not run a candidate at the federal level since 1961. In 1921, most of the Marxist members left the SPC to join the Workers Party, which was the legal wing of the new Communist Party of Canada. In 1925, the Socialist Party formally disbanded. Many of its remaining members joined the Independent Labour Party. A new Socialist Party of Canada was founded in June 1931 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by several former party members. While it claimed continuity with the original party, this claim was disputed by various members of the original party. The new party adopted the policies of the Socialist Party of Great Britain which rejected Leninism, social democracy and trade unionism in favour of a belief in "revolutionary Marxism and democratic revolution." The Socialist Party continued to publish socialist manifesto leaflets through the years. When funds permitted, it ran candidates in elections. In the late 1970s, the head office was moved from Winnipeg to Victoria, British Columbia. The membership of the Socialist Party continued to decline, and the party admits that it never managed to live up to the "success and glamour" of the old party. The party has not wavered from the original policies that it adopted seventy years ago. The Socialist Party promotes the ideal of utopian socialism. It seeks to achieve this by distributing socialist material around the world. The party believes it must spread the word to the world, and that socialism must be implemented everywhere at the same time in order to work. The bulk of current party members are in British Columbia and Ontario. It publishes a journal, Imagine, and distributes the literature of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. The Socialist Party of Canada is a member of the World Socialist Movement along with its "companion parties", the Socialist Party of Great Britain, the World Socialist Party (Ireland), World Socialist Party of Australia, World Socialist Party (New Zealand), and World Socialist Party of the United States. NEED WE SAY MORE? You are not Canadian or you would know this stuff!

Canada is a democratic country, but it does have a few social programs which are all encompassing - health care for one, pensions for another.

I would venture that there is no country in the world where there are no rich or poor or that everyone was equal. I have yet to hear of the leader of any country living in the same kind of housing that a single parent on welfare lives in.

Canada owns the means of production, more specifically, the subjects of labor (natural resources and raw materials). Here in the US, we have an issue with the Keystone XL Pipeline. In Canada, the tribes in New Brunswick are trying to stop Canada from issuing permits to companies to test the shale for fracking....and there is absolutely nothing they can do about it. In fact, the more they protest, the more the Canadian military steps in to protect the workers that they gave permits to. Even though treaties allow those tribes to live on the land, in the end, the resources are still owned by the Canadian government. That's pure, unadulterated, 100% socialism.

The USA has Medicaid, Medicare for those over 65, Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, Legal Aid, hundreds of other social programs, plus the big one Social Security. AFDC Program, TANF Welfare Subsidies, WIC & CSFP, EITC, SSI, CHIP, School Lunch Program, TEFAP, LIHEAP, Homestead Property Tax Credit and many more to numerous to list. These programs cost the USA more than $1.3 trillion in 2013. So what name do we want to put on this Socialist country.

You are confusing socialism with communism.

While, yes, Canada is more socialist in it's policies than the US, it is still very much a mixed economy *similar* to the US.

Canada is a democracy, but is slightly leaned towards socialism. Free education, free health care, and ension all come from the taxes. that's why Canada has high taxes