We need a wake-up call for democracy

Any form of government is judged on its ability to deliver goods: peace, human rights, economic prosperity and increasingly environmental and climatic action. It’s time to shake off our complacency.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on Jan. 5, 2022, at a press conference on the Hill. Deep democratic renewal will require a much more sweeping agenda that starts by reimagining how power is shared throughout society—not only in our parliaments. Regrettably, the commitments Canada announced at the summit fall far short of what Yale scholar Hélène Landemore proposes or what many others recommend, write Peter MacLeod and Richard Johnson. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PETER MACLEOD AND RICHARD JOHNSON

January 14, 2022

Last month, U.S. President Joseph R. Biden convened the Summit for Democracy, a three-day virtual gathering of leaders and representatives from more than 100 countries, including Canada, who share at least one trait: a concern that democracy itself is under siege. With democratic norms eroding thro...

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