Canada needs a co-ordinated democracy strategy

This week’s Summit for Democracy presents an opportunity for Canada to unite our approaches to democracy at this anxious time of democratic recession.

In current federal ministerial mandate letters democracy concerns mostly the outward-facing portfolios of Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, left, and International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan, writes Anoush F. Terjanian. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANOUSH F. TERJANIAN

March 27, 2023

On March 30, Canada will participate in the second Summit for Democracy convened by the United States. At the first Summit in 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans for a “Canadian centre for global democracy” to “be there for fragile and emerging democrac...

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