They own their houses, but they have no mineral rights to what's under the ground. Also look into Esso and the amount of money it gets from the government sometime. Look at the utilities and who owns and runs those.
Your oversimplifying this a lot you know. BTW they pay far more in taxes than we do. Hell GST, provincial and federal taxes, supporting all of these various social programs. I don't know why you have such a problem with the word? How would you define it? Is there some stigma you attach to socialist? Tim -----Original Message----- From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 2:33 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Altruism (was RE: US threatens Caribbean Countries) Well all I know is that Tim claimed that it was socialist because the large industries are government owned and something about property rights, neither of which is true. I have been in the states a long time but I have family in Canada and ya they own houses, work and pay taxes in very much the same way that I do. Dana Nick McClure writes: > That is only part of the equation. > > Socialism and democracy are not mutually exclusive, you can have a socialist > democracy, capitalist monarchy or a communist republic. > > Socialism or capitalism is the economic side, democracy or dictatorship is > the political side. > > I would say that Canada is not a 100% capitalist country. There are > obviously capitalist ideas, but there are a number of socialist ideas as > well. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 2:04 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Altruism (was RE: US threatens Caribbean Countries) > > > > It's a parliamentary democracy. > > > > Dana > > > > Heald, Tim writes: > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
