Justin Trudeau vs. Andrew Scheer in the US: who would win?
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« Reply #25 on: June 16, 2021, 05:34:10 PM »

Scheer. Trudeau would be considered too left-wing for supporting universal health care. Sad, but true.

Ironically Canada and US are on opposite ends here.  Most developed countries unlike US have a universal health care system (US is only industrialized country without one) while Canada actually tries to ban private competition for basic health care while almost all others allow a small parallel private system with limits but don't try to ban it outright like Canada does.  Just having one private clinic or hospital where people can pay is very controversial in Canada whereas in most other countries, as long as it doesn't undermine public system, people are okay with that.  In fact what right wing groups like Fraser Institute are pushing for in Canada is norm in Europe and Australia while in US left wing groups pushing for largely same thing. 

Now true Canadian system is less socialistic than Europe in sense it is not as comprehensive in coverage, but polls show idea of expanding to include pharmacare and universal dental care very popular and only thing holding back government is high cost and fact tax hikes to fund it would be controversial. 

Even in Europe, Trudeau's stance on private health care is comparable to many hard left parties not centre-left.  He wants to shut down all private diagnostic clinics which exist in other countries with universal health care without issue.  At same time he is probably politically savvy enough he would water down his position if running in US.  Or it would be blocked by congress and would start with single payer like Sanders advocates but then strike some deal in between.  At same time unlike Biden, Trudeau is not very good at working with those with different viewpoints so that might be a problem for him.
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