Is Canada Democratic Socialist or Leftist in any way?

I know but I can't help but fucking scream when ignorant Americans and even Canadians think that Canadian is some socdem paradise (which they call socialist). Canada is nowhere close to a social democracy. People on disability here in Ontario are paid $631/month for basic needs, up to $479/month for shelter allowance. Canadian dollars. Not US. People on our welfare program (which is a workfare program) are paid $305/month for basic needs, up to $376/month for shelter. Our public health care is pretty bare bones. Tuition is expensive here. Private health care (dental, pharmaceutical drugs, etc.) is expensive. Housing is expensive. Food is getting more expensive all the time. Electricity. I don't know where people are getting this idea that we are a socdem paradise.

Canada is socialist in the eyes of those who have never experienced anything other than extreme capitalism (US).

I have two questions:

1: Is the whole 'Gultral Magzizm" Thing exclusive to Americans?

2: Wasn't Useful Idiot closer to NEETSOCism?

Also, bit of a no true scotsman there.

It seems to be a largely American thing, yes. I've not really looked into it much tbh.

Speak English, pal.

Not really. White Nationalists who praise Hitler are not Nat.Socs anymore than a Social Democrat who praises Marx is a Marxist.

Our minimum wage ($11.25/hr) is also not that great when you factor in the weakness of the Canadian dollar. And we have 40+ hour work weeks like Americans.

I don't know where people get this idea that Canada is a socdem paradise. I don't see that Canada at all. I have to live with my parents. Because if I want to qualify for autismbux, I basically have to be broke and sell everything of value I own (like my car). And autismbux doesn't pay very much as I established. And it's not exactly easy to get disability.

Tbh I'm not even sure if Canada is less capitalistic than the United States. In some ways yes (basic public health care). But I think it's actually harder to get/keep welfare in Canada than the United States. And our welfare and disability benefits are lower than welfare and SSI in the US. Especially after factoring in the currency conversion.

I know a guy in the United States who is 36-37 years old, lives at home, doesn't bother looking for work and he qualifies for food stamps and Obamacare in California at the very least from what I know. If you want welfare here in Canada, you have to actively look for work, show proof of this, attend job hunting/job interview workshops and go to the welfare office regularly. They give you some financial reimbursement for bus fare to attend interviews and a suit to wear at interviews. That's about it. And qualifying for disability isn't exactly easy.

I think Americans hear about the public healthcare and the cheap drugs, and they jump to conclusions and assume that Canada is some sort of socialist paradise.

Stra sser closer to nat socism is what I meant.

Strasserism is only one wing of Nat. Soc.

It is more socialist than Hitlerism, if that's what you mean.

Important to note that Obamacare is nothing more than subsidizing the cost of private health insurance for poor people. You still have to pay an insurance premium. Did you mean to say he was on medicaid? Medicaid is extremely hard to get.

Same thing here, except that you only get unemployment benefit if you have worked in the past and it only lasts for two years.

Daily reminder that market socialism and centrally planned capitalism both can exist.

So a person can own the means of production but can't manage it? Can socialism be achieved if the means of productions is owned by the working class but not managed or vice versa? Is that even possible?

Democratic socialism=socialism (collective ownership of the means of production) wirh a democratic state to handle stuff

Social democracy=capitalism with welfare state