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Copying the US economically is not the road to happiness (rabble.ca)

submitted 23 hours ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 18 points 21 hours ago

I don’t want to be a smaller America, I feel Canada can thrive if we get the proper cogs in place.

I like Canadas universal healthcare, EI, education subsidization, and welcoming of other people.

I don’t want a new mother forced to work early after childbirth. We should never strive to be like the U.S. we don’t need to be stupid rich and miserable, or poor and miserable. We’re close enough to that already with the state of things.

Socialist Democracy is a far better choice provided the people at the top can properly execute our tax dollars and not waste them on corruption and bloat.

We are a resource rich country. Nationalize a lot of this and we can all benefit. If we look towards Norway, it’s a better environment to emulate.

Nothings perfect, but there’s a lot better out there than America when it comes to copying.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

I wish we where better we keep comparing ourselves to America. But why are we not comparing ourselves to European countries.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I think a lot of that is because the Americans are right there and they export a ton of American exceptionalism to us through their media. And have done since the earliest days of newspapers.

While the Cancon regulations were a level of protection from that overwhelming presence, they didn't go far enough (IMHO)

I have long advocated for the cable TV foreign carriage regulations to require no more than 30% of international channels to be from any single country. That would have reduced the overwhelming impact that American "culture" has had on Canada.

Alas, with cable's growing irrelevance, that opportunity is long gone.