An interesting piece from Bloomberg View:
“Despite its image
as a North American outpost of Scandinavian social values, the country has
experienced a divergence in high and middle incomes similar to the U.S.'s, if
not quite as severe. Unlike the U.S., Canada has already done the obvious
things to remedy that: Its residents enjoy universal health care, reasonably
generous social programs, paid family leave, a relatively high minimum wage,
and college tuition that averages less than $5,000 a year. Yet that hasn't been
enough to reverse the trend (interrupted by the recession) toward ever-greater
inequality. So the lingering question for progressives in both countries is
this: What more is there to do?”