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Health care can be non-profit without it being controlled by the government and it being non-profit doesn't imply it would all be unconditionally free. Choices aren't limited to for-profit corps or government doing it. I think non-government, non-profit models are the way to go.

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For example, if most people had non-profit insurance from a few organizations covering the whole country (not per-province), the bargaining power and economics of scale would still be there. It's really important for it to have systems to prevent corruption and to be efficient.

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I don't think the Ontario government is capable of running infrastructure/services in good faith. It alternatives between the 'Progressive Conservative Party' and 'Ontario Liberal Party' both of which are just ridiculously corrupt and hardly even have any real ideology at all.

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It's often pretty hard to even tell the difference between the 3 major parties aside from mildly different stances on certain social issues. It's not like the US. So for example, NDP is nominally to the left of the Liberals but especially provincially differences are unclear.

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We don't even have much of those kinds of wedge issues or identity politics though. It's there to some extent, but it's a lot more subtle, and I think it's largely just a faint reflection of the US because people consume tons of US media and pay more attention to US politics.

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Not like Canada was run in a way that was significantly more right wing with Stephen Harper in power. Difference with Trudeau is mostly just that he pretends to be all progressive. Our provincial governments do health care, education, etc. and federal doesn't really do much.

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We also don't elect our Senate despite them being fairly powerful. The prime minister just chooses them with ceremonial approval by the crown. Prime minister is just the leader of the party. They technically don't even need to have a seat in the house, but generally they do.

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State legislators are elected to govern their state so it's not really massively distinct. In our system, the PM is pretty much unelected aside from needing to win some generally easy riding to keep their seat. They don't technically need to win that, but party would expect it.

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I think our political culture is a lot better than the US in terms of what people care about and how they vote. The system for how the elections work is ridiculous though. Elections are at least run competently and still using paper ballots + supervised hand counting is nice.

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We're unable to have a competent government because of the ridiculous system that's set up. People aren't locked into 2 party voting with strong identities tied to it like the US, so I can at least see things getting much better if the election mechanics are somehow improved.

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