Well, meds while in hospital are free, and otherwise they are much cheaper or offered for free to qualified individuals. So they're either cheap or free. I'd c

Well, meds while in hospital are free, and otherwise they are much cheaper or offered for free to qualified individuals. So they're either cheap or free. I'd consider that almost free education haha, but also I'm from Quebec, so the average is 3k per year for tuition (also why can't other province follow suit here). In any case, it's far away from a 60k tuition you can get in the US. You won't really see anything above 16k per year in Canada even for med school at the best university. I'm also from Quebec, so for childcare you get 7$ per day, but yes it can be hard to find availability. Honestly, I'd be happy with unpaid parental leave even, but off course I'm an engineer, so I can afford it. I think a lot of parents can afford having one at home with 500$ a month and the other working. So it's still a pretty big perk. > It's not a worker's paradise up here. It's better than it could be though I think that's slightly off topic, California has way better jobs for engineers, that's why I'm no longer in Canada. But job availability and pay is kind of orthogonal to taxes (unless you'd tell me the tax money goes towards attracting higher paying jobs to the state). So the question remains, where the hell does the tax money go here? And why can't they offer as many services when the taxes are just as high, especially considering the state is way richer than any province in Canada, it seems they could afford to offer even more services than in Quebec for all that money.