In her book The Sum of Us Heather McGee exhaustively documents what the exorbitant costs of racism for both black and white people who would benefit from more public goods. Canada's white population wasn't necessarily less racist, but Canada didn't have slavery, Jim Crow's elaborately codified rule by racist terror nor the white backlash to a welfare state perceived as benefitting "those people". So it got nice stuff like universal healthcare, paid family leave, publicly funded mostly free universities, well-funded secular public schools not segregated by both social class and race, etc. In the US the rather threadbare welfare state created by FDR and the GI Bill were racialized at their foundation and seen as such by their white working class beneficiaries. In Canada this didn't happen. Canada avoided the public swimming pools emptied and filled in to avoid integrating them, an outcome that harmed both the targets and the transmitters of bigotry. To get this more fortunate outcome Canada didn't have to be less racist. But the result was definitely a more European-type welfare state that made the country more civilized.