The manufacturing-based Canada of the 1960s is largely gone. Today, much of the country is more prosperous, dynamic and resource-rich. The welfare state itself looks tired. Regional transfers meant to empower poorer regions have, in fact, trapped them in poverty.
Nowhere is the exhaustion of the welfare state more evident than in Canada's government-run health care. The system is plagued by long waiting lists for specialist consultations and diagnostic tests, and some four to five million Canadians can't find a family physician.
The US is the Saudi Arabia of coal and natural gas. The primary obstacle is the government allied with the Greens determined to shut traditional energy sources down, no matter who gets hurt.
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