Why would young people from UK and Canada think that, given that they already have a European-style welfare state with universal healthcare? Canada actually pushes it further than most of Europe with their single-payer healthcare system that effectively prohibits private coverage for things covered by the public system.
Canadians of all people also ought to remember how they got their system, which was by voting[1] for parties that supported it in elections. It had basically nothing to do with threat of communism.
Canadians of all people also ought to remember how they got their system, which was by voting[1] for parties that supported it in elections. It had basically nothing to do with threat of communism.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Saskatchewan_general_elec...