Politics of fear working as Harper frames himself as the strict father

Combined with a trend towards disturbingly low turnouts in federal elections, there is reason to start using the term crisis in describing Canadian democracy.

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—What does it say about our democracy when the Prime Minister can with impunity demonstrate contempt for it and repeatedly violate its rules, conventions and the independence of its institutions and agencies?

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