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To correct myself it's really more like 3.5 of Canada's 4 sitting parties. The Progressive Conservatives still believe in state-funded social programs, restricting free trade with the US, and modeling themselves after a British system. Only influence from the Western Canadians has moved the government as a whole towards the right.

There is a diverse range of thought as to what forms of social organization would be ideal in anarchism. The anarchism you are referring to is more of the Max Stirner variety, an off-shoot of individualist anarchism.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

Indeed, and there is even such a thing as anarcho-marxism. I tend to feel that an absolute democractic state would not tend to "wither away", but rather grow larger over time.

That's sort of like comparing apples and oranges. Or apples and geography.

Canada is on par with most of Europe, the country is modeled after and has many of the same political affiliations as England. Canada has more in common with them than they do with us.

We live in the same city.

Insofar as Canada has a parliamentary, multi-party system, you are correct. But the social welfare system of Canada doesn't go nearly as far as, say, England and France. Whereas Canada has single-payer healthcare(government provides health insurance for everyone, but doctors and hospitals still function much like in America), European countries have full-on socialized medicine(government actually runs the hospitals, and doctors are government employees). Have you seen the Michael Moore film "Sicko"? He makes a big point about Canadian health care, but the stuff he shows about France is way beyond what the Canadian government does.

So yes, the structure of the Canadian government is decidedly European, but in discussing economic policies(such as in this thread), I feel I am quite justified in classifying Canada as a middle ground between the US and Europe.

I'll say again, Canadians are more like Europeans than they are like Americans, which makes your original comment inaccurate.

Actually, in context(this discussion is about economics, in case you weren't aware) my comment was accurate. Canada is a capitalist country with a slightly more generous social safety net.

Well, a social safety net is different then a completely government run industry, which as I understand it is what what Canada has as far as health care goes.

As I was already saying, that's what Europe has. Canada has single-payer healthcare, which means that the government covers everyone's basic medical costs with state-sponsored health insurance, but the actually medical practice remains largely private. (Correct me if I'm wrong, Canadians)