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Originally Posted by Cactus Jack
If we had 300 million people, the only thing that would go up would be the administrative costs but the system would still be what it is today, thankfully. 10X the people means 10X the tax revenue to run it. Take away the resources? Why would you do that when they are here? That is the backbone of the Canadian economy, that would be like saying take away money and shut down all for profit companies in the US.
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Because not every country is sitting on oil&gas. Just like Chavez can run his little socialist miracle because his country is floating on gas, Canada can run more expensive health care system and revenues from natural resources can hide flaws and cost ineficiency. However that system is not universaly applicable to a random country which doesn't have the benefit Canada has. Ie you cant really boast that Canada has some kind of a great universal system in place.