Why aren't Canadians Americans?
There are many differences and variations between America and Canada. Canada
was founded by those who did not want to be Americans. These can be seen today
through differences in healthcare, government, big business. When many people in
America and also Canada think about the American Revolution they think that it only
created America, but it created two nations. Seymour Martin Lipset said,
"One celebrates the overthrow of an oppressive state, the triumph of the people, a
successful effort to create a type of government never seen before. The other
commemorates a defeat and the long struggle to preserve a historical source of
legitimacy: government's deriving its title-to-rule from a monarch linked to church
This quote shows that America was made by the people and the other was still ruled by a
In Canada, healthcare is provided free to all the citizens of Canada. After
immigrants are in Canada for six months, they are provided with free healthcare.
Healthcare in America is a definite problem that is addressed by almost all politicians that
are running for office. The ongoing arguement in America is that the government should
lower the rates of health care for the people. While Canada was being developed the
citizens had a lot more trust in the government then in the United States to treat the
people fairly and not take advantage of them. In America, the government doesn't pay for
the healthcare it is payed for by the peoples jobs. Today the system of Healthcare is much
better in Canada than the United States because the US healthcare keeps rising.
The government in both countries originated differently to become what they are
today. Canadians were content with the English Monarchy because they didn't want to
have a revolution like in the United States. In the United States, the people where keeping
the revolution in the back ...