Comedian Bill Maher spent nearly 10 minutes of his HBO show Real Time skewering Canada for being more dysfunctional than the United States and a lesson in what America should avoid.

“If you want to save our country, we should follow the advice good liberals have given for decades and learn from other countries, especially those beacons of progressivism like Canada, England and Scandinavia,” the comedian said as he opened the segment.

Maher highlighted the lower unemployment rate in the United States, and Canada having more major cities with air pollution, to launch into a broader critique of how the latter was falsely seen as a liberal paradise for frustrated Americans in recent years.

“I’m not citing these stats because I have it out for Canada — I love Canada, its people, and always have — but I hate zombie lies,” Maher continued. “That’s when things change, but what people say about them doesn’t. Yes, for decades, places like Vancouver and Amsterdam and Stockholm seemed idyllic because everything was free and all the energy we needed was produced by riding a bike to your job at the windmill,” he joked.