MEASURING SOCIALISM IN NORTH AMERICA: A COMPARISON BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
             Which of the two countries is more socialist, Canada or the United States of
             America? It must first be state that neither Canada nor the USA is considered a
             socialist state. For the purpose of this project, a socialist state would be one
             such as Greece was until the early 1990's; a country where the state owns all
             forms of companies and/or businesses and offers practically every type of social
             service known to modern governments. Since none of the two North American
             countries that will be featured in this paper can accurately compare to the
             above description, the paper will simply attempt to determine which of the two
             has a higher degree of socialism when matched against each other following a
             Before going any further, let's view the conceptual definitions to the key
             elements of this paper. Socialism, as referred to throughout the text, can be
             defined as follows: any of various social or political theories or movements in
             which the common welfare is to be achieved through the establishment of a
             socialist economic system. A socialist economic system can be defined as an
             economic structure in which the community owns the means of production,
             distribution, and exchange collectively, and the benefits are distributed to all
             members of that community. In this economic layout the people will run the
             government in a highly democratic fashion .
             Having established what socialism is, let's move on to the research question,
             or hypothesis. It is assumed that Canada will have a higher lever of
             socialism than the United States of America based on its higher level of
             taxation and its apparently more developed social services system. The research
             question is therefore: is Canada truly more socialist than the United States of
             America? The variables that will be used to...