Free appendectomies, Timbits, and now Canadians can also boast we beat America at democracy

The U.S. has slipped from a ‘full’ to ‘flawed’ democracy, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, while Canada achieved its highest ranking ever.

U.S. President Donald Trump 'is not to blame for this decline in trust, which predated his election, but he was the beneficiary of it,' according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

March 8, 2017

MONTREAL—It says something about the state of democracy that the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2016 Democracy Index, published just over a month ago, is already a dead web page, or at least it was for me recently when I found a sad “We’re sorry. We can’t find the page you were looking for....

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