West Coast states urged to join Canada
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Retarded fee-feels enthousiasts don't understand the political system they want to shill for.
You don't ''get'' universal healthcare by joining Canada.
If they want one, each province has to make, manage, and pay for their own public healthcare system. You will also have to deal with doctors who are not attached to Canada simply pack-up and leave because you will offer them substancially worse pay and working conditions in the public system. ( Huge problem in Québec is the student doctors that we pay for on public funds at McGill University ( so in English ) overwhelmingly leave Québec, because they have zero reason to stay since they have no attachment to French language and nation. )
In Québec that means 43% of all public funds go to the healthcare system. For the worst ER wait time of the developped world. It used to be relatively good. Things quickly went to shit when immigration increased ( no matter what mental gymnastics pro-immigration use, the fact is immigrants overall demand more services than they contribute, worsening everything, every year ).
What is stopping a US state from making a public healthcare system?
Don't take this as a support for how the USA is ''working''. The insurance / hospital system is a den of corruption. Every price is several times inflated and then negociated down for insurers.
Doesn't Quebec also have language requirements if you want to live in Quebec?
There is no requirement whatsoever if you already have Canadian citizenship as Canadian provinces have unrestricted migration.
But foreing immigrant applicants get bonus selection if they speak French and apply in Québec.
The most relevant limits to help preserve our language : large companies have to function in French ( with a bunch of exceptions rendering the law barely applied ), and companies must offer their services in French ( and whatever language else is allowed, but French must be there. )
Public education is mandatory in French before college ( with mandatory English second language classes ), unless you have special right to public English education ( from your parent(s) ) in something called the "Clause Canada", so English speakers from Canada qualify, but not immigrant from outside Canada, even if English is their mother tongue.
Private education can use whatever medium language of instruction and there are many English schools.
The federal government also use disproportionate amounts of public funds to ensure English language services in sectors such as healthcare even in regions with less than 5% English speakers. This is rarely reciprocated for such small French minorities outside Quebec.
Public services / documents from the Québec government are fully avaliable in English ( including laws / court proceedings ).
Cities and villages usually conduct their activities in French. Some with many English speakers are de-facto, or officially bilingual and provide services in both.
Native American and Inuit towns are free to implement their own services, education and media in their native language ( and many do it, at least for elementary schools ). They even recieve large subsidies to do so.
The sheer volume of immigrants/"refugees" has overwhelmed all integration efforts, especially given the low fertility and low social prestige of the the French, and our language is quickly falling behind.