Canada and the U.K. may share useful lessons from Brexit

The U.K. is indeed a showcase of democracy in action, and lessons about the Brexit experience might be useful to managing the Canadian federation in the current political context.

Amid the continued Brexit impasse, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson got his desired early election call last week. The recent national election in Canada and the upcoming one in the United Kingdom are timely reminders of what sound democratic governance means and implies, writes Pascal Desbiens. Photograph courtesy of Arno Mikkor's Flickr

Opinion

BY PASCAL DESBIENS

November 6, 2019

With an election in the U.K. scheduled for Dec. 12, the fate of Brexit is back to the U.K. people. If 650 Members of the U.K. Parliament did not agree on the way forward with Brexit after three years, how could more than 30-million voters clarify this thor...

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