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I think the answer is a firm no.

Doing this would ignore the material conditions of people in Canada today. A part of that is the effects of the decades-long Red Scare propaganda. Going straight up socialism today would therefore result in the activation of all that latent propaganda along with huge resources behind that activation. That would most likely result in snuffing out whatever socialist potential has emerged over the last 5 years.

Instead of that, we should act in accordance to the current reality of Canadians. This means educating people of the realities of the capital system and how it affects them, as well as telling them about concrete steps we could collectively make to improve their material conditions. E.g. gov't run grocery stores that sell them food for less. As people start seeing the positives of these strategies, we can and should tell them - see this is socialism, as opposed to what The Red Scare told you. People who've gone through this consciousness evolution would then seek themselves to learn more and ask questions about socialism and socialist policies.

To add to that, there's many different kinds of socialism and once we've gone beyond the Red Scare, we should collectively discuss and vote on what kind of socialism we want to have. E.g. whether we want to emulate an existing model, or whether we want to employ a different one, like an economy dominated by worker co-ops.

Finally, we know that socialist policies without the name are broadly popular across the liberal-conservative political spectrum. There's plenty of data on that from the US. I imagine us canucks aren't vastly different on that. That's also a part of the material reality that we should use accordingly.