All I know is this, you must NOT become like Canada. Too many look to socialists nations like Canada, Sweden, UK, China to suggest there is "happiness". It's a big fraud.
People "vote" with their feet. Far more head to America from these great socialist nations than vice versa. Why? For the very things some want to destroy. Capitalism, your Republic and Constitution.
It must not happen. Do your part and speak your minds beyond just a forum. I know I've been a thorn in the sides of the dirty covert Canadians, you must never become like us.
That's why there's an investigation to impeach our tin pot dictator.
The system of denying tyrannical power to a wanna-be-monarch is working.
And I've been from Vancouver to Ottawa and back again to Winnipeg and Alberta and Toronto and I didn't see the misery you're describing.
You don't know Canada very well. We are being crushed like a bug on the International stage. In the last 2 years alone, dropping 4 places in competitiveness. Our innovation is gone, along with our most talented. We have a 9.5% expat rate, second highest on the planet! Foreign investment shrunk significantly from just a few years ago (we get a small bump this year and everyone cheers, not telling the dumb Canadians we dropped 50% in back to back years!). Highest personal non-mortgage debt on earth, 2 of the most over values housing markets in Vancouver and Toronto., the most indebted sub borrowing jurisdiction in Ontario.
In short, Canada is in deep trouble. Now, we have separatist sentiment growing in Quebec AND Alberta/Saskatchewan. The PM was chosen from basically 2 provinces, while our covert police destroy civil liberties to ensure their low performing kids get the "nice jobs".
Canada, is by definition, sadly, a shytehole. Imagine we didn't have a free trade agreement while beside the largest, highest consuming economy on earth? We'd have the GDP of Chad.