Laura Chesnik wants you to forget communism in China or Soviet Russia.
"Canada is a different country", she counters to the question during a recent interview with BlackburnNews.com.
Chesnik says her party believes healthcare is a human right and that the taxation system should be changed taking the onus off citizens. She says the current economic model isn't nation-building and doesn't work for ordinary Canadians.
Will that mean an increase in corporate taxes?
"The whole idea of taxation, we look at it in a different way," she says. "At the point of production, that's where the taxation should happen. That should account for things that benefit that company. Obviously, having a healthy educated worker is a huge benefit. At this time, that is not something companies directly pay for."
Chesnik is running against the NDP's Cheryl Hardcastle, Joanne Gignac of the Conservative Party, Liberal candidate Frank Schiller and the Green Party's David Momotiuk.