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Podcast: Open to Debate with David Moscrop
Episode: Can Canada protect itself from American democratic decline?
Description: Around the world, democracies are on the back foot. For years, experts, commentators, politicians, and other practitioners and observers have discussed a global democratic recession. Several countries are of interest as case studies in decline, but the United States stands out. As an established democracy and global hegemon, the retreat of American democracy – always flawed, but increasingly so of late – threatens the world, and particularly its continental neighbours, including Canada.While Canada cannot be fully independent in a globalized world, particularly as we share a border with the United States, we must consider ways of p...