There’s ‘no Plexiglass between our borders’ protecting Canada from global authoritarian sentiment, ex-judge warns

Former Supreme Court justice Rosalie Silberman Abella told a McGill panel the global community had demonstrated few consequences for countries that departed from the principles of democracy established after the Second World War.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump's refusal to concede the 2020 election is an example of the ideological division and political dysfunction in the country 'rightly regarded as the motherlode of democracy,' said former Indian high commissioner to Canada Vikas Swarup.

Canada is not immune from growing anti-democratic sentiment around the world, according to a panel of justices and diplomats, and the greatest challenge will come from the United States as presidential candidate Donald Trump employs increasingly authoritarian rhetoric.

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