Canada and USA are sumilar in age compared to Europe. The biggest difference I see between Canadian attitude toward life and USA seems to boil down to free healthcare. With free healthcare you don’t have to amass wealth to take care of yourself just in case. And you don’t have to keep worrying about law suits if somebody is injured. It changes your relationship with the citizens, because Canadians are in it together, Americans fend for themselves.
And in the province of British Columbia we have socialized crown corp car insurance. You don’t sue another insurance company for damages (or health care costs) in a car accident, because its all one insurer. Your car gets fixed, your medical is paid. If they payout less than the premiums collected we get rebate cheques. For majority of accidents where damage is minimal and nobody is seriously hurt, you don’t even have the police come for a traffic report, you just self report it online.
Canada and USA are sumilar in age compared to Europe. The biggest difference I see between Canadian attitude toward life and USA seems to boil down to free healthcare. With free healthcare you don’t have to amass wealth to take care of yourself just in case. And you don’t have to keep worrying about law suits if somebody is injured. It changes your relationship with the citizens, because Canadians are in it together, Americans fend for themselves.
And in the province of British Columbia we have socialized crown corp car insurance. You don’t sue another insurance company for damages (or health care costs) in a car accident, because its all one insurer. Your car gets fixed, your medical is paid. If they payout less than the premiums collected we get rebate cheques. For majority of accidents where damage is minimal and nobody is seriously hurt, you don’t even have the police come for a traffic report, you just self report it online.
Everything is a lot less adversarial