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What’s so wrong with Canada that we best snap out of our complacency?

Through nine persuasive yet demoralizing chapters, Jonathan Manthorpe leads us through his rational report card on our nation’s prospects. If we don't attend to matters now, he warns, Canada is Argentina waiting to happen.

Justin Trudeau, left, Pierre Poilievre, and Jagmeet Singh. Author Jonathan Manthorpe insists our representative democracy is crucially misrepresentative. The first-past-the-post electoral system skews the outcome, so the governments we get are a triple distortion of voters’ political will, writes Chris Dornan.The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER DORNAN

October 30, 2024

Here's a question: Given everything the two countries have in common, why isn't Canada like Argentina?

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