Canada has that stuff too. It just benefits from living in the shadow of a country that's much bigger (in terms of population) and louder about it. Canada has a very ugly history of racism and oppression of its indigenous population that continues up to the present. Indigenous people in Canada are poorer than the general population, disproportionately the victims of crime and police brutality, and Canadian police rarely bother to investigate disappearances of indigenous people. Canada took in a huge number of Nazis after World War II, particularly Ukrainian Nazis (which it deemed "refugees from communism", a sick joke), which has left an ugly mark on Canadian politics up to the present. For example, Canada's current deputy prime minister is the granddaughter of a notorious Ukrainian Nazi and she considers him a "freedom fighter". Up until Trudeau became prime minister, Canada was one of a handful of countries (mostly just the US and Ukraine) which voted each year to oppose a UN resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism. Now Canada abstains each year (most recently just days ago), which isn't much better, leaving the US and Ukraine as the only countries that vote against. Probably when Canada gets another prime minister they'll go back to voting against it again. Canadian companies participate heavily in the exploitation and looting of the global south, and Canada has been involved in at least one coup in Haiti to overthrow a progressive Haitian government and keep Haitian workers' wages down. Canada is one of the biggest supporters of Israel's racist colonial occupation of Palestine. Canada sells bombs to Saudi Arabia to kill the people of Yemen with, making Canada complicit in some of the most atrocious crimes against humanity so far this century.
I've never liked the myth of Canada being this happy utopia of kindness. This isn't to say Canadians are all bad people, but Canada as a political entity is just a smaller, less powerful version of the US.
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Canada spends billions on its indigenous population. They are poorer because they live in isolated areas where they lack basic services and try to live off the land which is impossible to do. The indigenous population should move to areas around Canada's largest cities (like immigrants do) and become part of the Canadian mosaic.
Communism had no refugees or victims?? Eastern Europe was a mess after WW2 and I am sure a few fascists were allowed into Canada. They had no influence or effect on Canadian life or government policy. I am not a big fan of Chrystia Freeland but I don't think she should pay for the sins of her grandfather. A country built on immigration will sometimes make mistakes. What country are you from??
Haiti - another country we seed billions to every year. It doesn't seem to matter who is in power there, the country is a mess and Canada more than does it part to try and make it better.
Israel is a democracy where Arabs have the right to vote and serve in the Knesset. Other Arab countries are signing diplomatic and trade agreements with Israel as they have had enough of the Palestinians and their ongoing victimhood. The Palestinians are their own worst enemy.
Iran is causing most of the trouble in Yemen and most of the Middle East for that matter.
The world could use a few more Canadas in my opinion. Our motto should be - Come here and live, if not, we will send you money.
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