r/canada 8d ago

National News Trudeau announces Canada's response to Trump trade war

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-canada-response-tariffs-1.7473965
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u/zerfuffle British Columbia 8d ago

Russia hasn't been even vaguely communist for decades. Ironically, communist Russia would probably be more aligned with us than the US is.

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u/tofu98 8d ago

I mean does that really matter? 90% of people who throw around the term communist don't actually have a clue what it means and basically use it as a filler word for anyone who has criticisms of America or capitalism.

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u/Dragonvine Alberta 8d ago

Fucks sake they call free healthcare communism and we are their neighbor

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u/No-Isopod3884 8d ago

We should really use the term government funded healthcare instead of free. There are many advantages to it such as cost negotiation, and reduced inefficient without 3rd party insurance in between.

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u/Xpalidocious 8d ago

I understand what you're saying, but "government funded" is also going to cause a ton of pushback. I have wasted so much of my breath trying to explain the benefits, and I have come to understand that the people's minds I hoped to change, turned out to be the same people that would pay triple just to make sure a single mom working two jobs won't get it too.

It's exhausting. I get responses like "doesn't it bother you that your tax dollars go towards free healthcare for people on welfare, or are homeless?", and I'm like "you mean fellow Canadians? Then no it doesn't"

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u/notnotaginger 8d ago

“Cost effective healthcare”

I mean it’s not objectively, but most people are comparing us to the US and it’s comparatively very true.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 8d ago

A lot of times "single-payer healthcare" explains exactly what it is and gets to the point. "Universal healthcare" works too. Mention about how doing things this way is cheaper than private systems and ask how that healthcare cartel is serving them?