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"It's a weird thing about (anglo) Canada that for the past eighty years, social (not economic) gains have been handed down by the elites without even the presence of a meaningful movement demanding them."

Not completely true, but mostly. The State of Canada has developed as a provider of public infrastructure and services. Before the social programs, the Church and the Crown were the main providers of social welfare, and the younger colonies were offshoots of Americana. Since the '60s there were autonomous workers ad social movements that started to provide with a kind of nonprofit safety net, but the government pushed itself as a Nanny State and arbiter of labor conflicts during the '70s, when at the same time masses of easy government jobs sprung out of nowhere, giving nice careers in playful environments to boomers that all the later generations didn't have the privilege to get, as these same bureaucrats started to restrict and cut, cut, cut the fat. Now we're in this odd situation where the zoomers get it easy again as they rise quickly to the top, as the Gen Xers like me are "enjoying" a precarious living, without career or capital.