Comparison of two leaders and comparison of two countries

h/t CanadianSentinel      Over at PajamasMedia you will find a comparison between Stephen Harper and Barack Obama titled "Tale of Two Leaders".   Pretty good reading on the whole.  However,  in the comments section someone is throwing scalding super hot boiling oil on Canada and Canadian policies. I wonder how many American conservatives see us this way:

.....It’s a country with 80% the productivity level of the US and a 20-40% higher cost of living. At the margin that’s a huge hit to one’s standard of living and it’s all due to sloppiness, inefficiency and political reward of rent-seeking behavior.
I won’t even get into the health-care nightmare (don’t kid yourself that a two-tier system will flourish within the next generation given how brainwashed Canadians are about the nanny state.) Having seen the innards and operations of a top flight Canadian hospital when our child was born I prayed every day thereafter that we wouldn’t get sick before we were able to leave the country. The system is simply macabre.

I won’t get into the endemic political apathy. Or the terrible deficiencies of the parliamentary system that create a political class structurally unresponsive to constituents. Or the ludicrously illiberal and left-wing state-run media. Or the hostile atmosphere toward individual liberty and free speech. Or the mediocrity in schools and universities that state monopoly and enforced egalitarianism fosters. Or the willfully self-destructive bending over backwards to encourage immigrants (which make up an incredibly high proportion of young Canadians these days) to maintain their entirely illiberal and medieval cultural practices after becoming citizens. Or the fact that in order to become a citizen one must pledge fealty to the Queen of England (she’s the head of state in Canada.) Yes, the constitution in Canada was an act of the British parliament until 1982. And even today Canada is ruled by the Queen, however disinterestedly. Incredible.....