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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by abid786 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @07:47PM (#38418230)
I am not the parent but the comment does have some merit (and I say this as a Canadian). For a lot of things we simply gloat that we’re better than the US and then end up thinking that our work is done.

Classic case is health care (‘look, we spend less than the US and have free healthcare’) where instead of looking up to countries with better healthcare outcomes than us, we look down on America and act smug. Other cases include our climate record, and post secondary education.

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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by Xerox9213 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @03:20AM (#38420054)
I am yet to meet a fellow Canadian who hasn’t complained about our health care system. It seems to be one of the main discussions around provincial elections.
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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by throwaway2037 on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:47AM (#38429790)
This sounds like the UK NHS. The solution is simple (economically), but difficult politically: more money.
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Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal by rchaud on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:29PM (#38425703)
> Classic case is health care (‘look, we spend less than the US and have free healthcare’)

Who is saying this, other than low-information Americans on social media hung up on the word 'free'? Every Canadian knows that the reality is much more complicated with capacity shortages since Covid, and an opportunistic provincial government in Ontario doing its very best to push further privatization.

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