@MLClark Back to your "socialism" column of a few days ago ... I'm going through #FloridaToday letters to the editor in February 2010, doing research for my book. I found this letter and it reminded me of your column.
Oh, this reminds me of US outrage when marriage equality was about to be passed - and how some folks in their outrage threatened to move to Canada... where marriage equality had already been law for years. 😂
The sheer bubble many folks in the US live in with respect to other governments. I remember when granny death panels were all over US news. We Canucks kept checking in with each other while watching the panic unfold: "Have *you* been on a granny death panel? No? Me neither."
That said, I keep meaning to write a piece about the horrors of MAID, an assisted dying program that in Canada is being used by people whose poverty & disability are considered too burdensome for the government to try to solve in other ways. It's part of a hard push among many provincial governments to follow the US model with increased privatization of state services. We're literally selling off the richest inheritance one could have asked for. So, not *so* socialist after all.