Skip to Content Canada's much-romanticized social safety net is prompting some people to move away for better care Every July 1, we surrender to the anesthesia of rituals: a stylized maple-leaf exceptionalism, a collective sigh of relief that our society has escaped the perceived vulgarities of the American experiment, and a nod to a social safety net romanticized as our secular covenant. Gazing at the flag, we repeat a self-congratulatory narrative about a kinder, gentler nation.