Very hard to convince anyone to pay more taxes when you can't actually promise better services, especially health care services.
If there would be a direct line from increased taxation = increased amount of knee replacement surgeries, lowered wait times (as examples) people wouldn't have an issues paying higher taxes. But will that actually happen? Unlikely.
Canadian government wastes a lot of money. Bloat, corruption, programs where funds are allocated to faceless corporations, on and on you go. Nobody actually trusts the government to spend money wisely anymore, and I'd bet in countries like Finland, there is a higher level of trust in government, and likely rightly so.
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