Big democracies get buried with little shovels, like last week’s House Justice Committee shutdown

The dirt Francis Drouin and his pals shovelled onto democracy last week isn’t right, at all. And we won’t forget it.
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, chair of the House Justice Committee, pictured recently on the Hill.
TORONTO—Big democracies, like ours, don’t often die all at once. Big democracies get buried with little shovels. They die in plain view, bit by bit. Incrementally. So there was Liberal MP Francis Drouin at the House of Commons Justice Committee, last Wednesday afternoon, waiting for his moment...

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