Our neighbour is an eroding democracy

An eroding democracy is a threat to democracy in its neighbours. The following is an excerpt from Not Here: Why American Democracy is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself, by Rob Goodman. The book is one of the five finalists for this year's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Rob Goodman: 'Our future depends on our mental independence from America. We can’t effectively protect our own institutions—from parliamentary government to a remarkable openness to immigration—without understanding what makes them our own. We can’t aspire to anything meaningfully better until we are secure in our difference.'Book cover and author photograph courtesy of Simon & Schuster

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BY ROB GOODMAN

May 6, 2024

If there is one theme in the literature of Canadian nationalism, it is the all-pervasive fear of being reduced to a cartographical fiction—or perhaps the fear that Canadians already are, and simply, mortifyingly, haven’t noticed yet.

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