Chris Young used improper usenet message composition style by
top-poasting:

From what I can figure, Canada went socialist a few decades ago.

We have provincially-run (not federally-run) heathcare systems where
doctors and hospitals are reimbursed by a singe-payer (the provincial
gov't). If you want to call that socialist - go ahead.

If you have something else in mind (other than how we pay for health
care) that makes us socialist, then explain it. We also have police,
fire, ambulance services that are also paid through some form of gov't
taxation - but so do you.

You also have medicare and medicaid and veteran's affairs hospitals (you
had them for a long time, under various administrations, republican and
democrat). So that makes a good chunk of your heathcare system fall
under a "socialist" paradigm.

There are probably a few people who quietly work hard and try
to earn a living,eh?

Apparently more than you have in your country.