the conditions and obligations of People With AIDS in Canada and the US were profoundly and irrevocably different. While the US is more powerful, has more military might, and globalizes its culture, Canada now has the richest middle-class in the world. Despite a decade of right-wing government austerity politics and severe cuts to social services before the Liberal Party’s victory in 2015, the remaining Canadian safety net seems cushy by American standards. Yet Canadians find its diminishment severe and dramatic.
