Surprise surprise

Handwritten notes smuggled in from the socialist Gulags of the Great White North:

Canada is a constitutional monarchy.
I know. Civics is hard.

Spread the word! The truckers are rising up! Socialist Usurper Trudeau's days are numbered!

Trudeau's power grabs literally proves my point. If he had a Russian or Ukrainian one party system to back him up he'd destroy the country. Power corrupts.
Socialism on paper is the government taking everything and sharing it. Socialism IN PRACTICE is the government taking everything and keeping it.
You're spreading the standard communist lie: THIS TIME WE'LL GET IT RIGHT!
I'm waiting.
I'm waiting. Get it right one time.

Sure, Canada’s heritage of Parliamentary democracy is partially constraining Trudeau — **FOR NOW** — but what happens if there’s an “emergency”? What if America invades Canada’s southern border and tries to finish the job from 1812?

Would Trudeau pull a Zelensky — use the invasion as a pretext to ban “pro-American” parties and politicians, conscript all Canadian men, label all dissent as treason?

Why take the risk?

Impeach Trudeau now!

Don't worry! We'll never have that leftist push for a single party system here in the USA! We're safe from the Jack booted methods of 2nd world kleptocracies here! We'll never arrest our political opponents to keep them from running for office like they do in the Ukraine and Russia!
I'm glad the American left will never try to seize power using emergencies and wars for cover!

But seriously.
Get it right one time. ONE TIME.
You can't point to one successful socialist/ communist state in modern times. Canada is a red herring.

Forget Canada - how about America?

Our state is more miserly and less "socialist" than the likes of Canada, Denmark, Sweden, etc. We don't have "free universal healthcare" for everyone, we don't have countrywide paid family leave, we don't have universal pre-K.

But we *do* have public schools (i.e. K-12 financed by taxes). We *do* have universal healthcare for certain groups: Senior citizens, military, etc. We *do* have unemployment benefits, even if they might terminate earlier and come with more strings attached than in other countries.

It's a difference of degree, not kind.

We collect taxes, we spend tax revenue. A lot of it goes toward military defense contractors and tax breaks for mega-corps, but a lot of it goes back to the people and to worthy causes.

Is all of this "socialist"? That depends entirely on how you define the term. If it is, then both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are socialist.

Public schools and social security are pretty cringe; the other two are acceptable because of their tendency toward natural monopoly #nationalizetherailroad. Also pretty sure both Sweden and Demark use vouchers instead of nationalizing parts of their school system.

Came with the 37-dollar screws.

Claiming that all government is socialism and therefore socialism works is not only obviously false, but also changing the subject.
You cannot find a successful socialist country.
Venezuela went from rich to poor to starving to a starving jackbooted military dictatorship in a decade using the same leftist government takeovers of every aspect of life you advocate for here. And when it fails here too you'll pretend to be suprised.
I won't pretend to be suprised.

Lol.