Look, my country is NOT utopia, but then nothing is. In fact, after living there for a few years I determined that your country isn't really a "country" at all by modern standards -- it's actually very close to what the Founding Fathers of the United States envisioned when the United States was created!
I'll dig up a famous quote from the past, which got a lot of laughs from co-workers who wanted to know why someone from the U.S. would move there:
"I didn't move to Canada -- I moved to Alberta."
;-)
Actually Federalism is a big movement here. Ottawa tells us what to do but then expects the provinces to foot the bill. Taxation WITHOUT representation.
Plus we practice regional welfare. Canada taxes the richer provinces and transfers the money to poorer provinces. For example gas taxes go to one federal pot. Most is wasted on things like 1 billion for gun registration. The rest is divided unequally. BC gets back about 1/5th of its gas taxes paid to Ottawa. Regions close to Ottawa of course get the Lion's Share.
Canada has been ruled by 3 multi-millionaire lawyers for the last 3 decades. Maybe that's what's wrong.