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Conservative Principles vs. the Canadian Wheat Board

Image from: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bantjes.com/marian/pictures/su_grain-elevators.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002007.html&h=369&w=350&sz=40&hl=en&start=17&sig2=7ksbgBegz682zSMkyJkSRg&tbnid=kWVW9oKZa6ctrM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=116&ei=j2DDRoTYGpOQeayeuMAJ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsask%2Bwheat%2Bpool%2Belevator%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX OK now I'm divided. Upon arrival in Canada for a family reunion my uncle almost had me convinced that socialism isn't a complete failure. Let's be honest, my conservative friends, you are quite right that the economic freedom in a free-enterprise system guarantees the most prosperity, and that alternatives which abridge such freedoms are misguided and are eventually self-defeating. But the dire analyses you make about how terrible things are in socialist countries are often biased and self-serving. Canada's health care