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Originally Posted by Crawford
This entire post is bullshit. Why do some Canadians cling to this faux exceptionalism? You live in America North, with minor differences. You aren't "more egalitarian", you're slightly poorer.
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Why do you insist on both being confrontational/dislikable and saying things are are completely erroneous?
More egalitarian is measurable and provable as fact.
There's this thing called the Gini Co-efficient, you might want to look into it.
Canada has a Gini of ~.32
The U.S. is ~.37
The lower number indicates less inequality.
In the OECD Canada ranks as the #23 country in terms of economic equality
The U.S. ranks as #31
Materially lower.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ncome_equality
This isn't about the relative wealth at the median which is highly comparable between the U.S. and Canada.
Its that we lower income in the top quintile and higher income (after transfers) in the bottom quintile.
Which is ....ummmmm....more egalitarian by definition.
Its not in factual terms, better or worse. Its not a national bragging contest, its math.
And yours is wrong Crawford.
PS, you can also look up the poverty rate in each country here:
https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=66670
The U.S. rate is 50% higher than Canada's.
It is what it is.
Canada is an imperfect country that needs to improve in any number of ways; but it is more egalitarian than the U.S.
Whether that's the provision of health insurance, or lower tuitions or cash transfers or higher labour standards (still way too low).
But we are a more equal society.
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Outside of that, Canada is materially different in respect of being a bilingual nation, and not just in Quebec.
In having much higher immigration.
Much lower violent crime.
Again, there are trade-offs; I'm happy w/them; but to each their own.
To suggest the two countries are more similar than they are is simply wrong.