Andrew Coyne fears and foretells the fall of Canada

Andrew Coyne is right to raise his voice about the crisis of Canada. But the extinction-level political disaster he’s so worried about hasn’t happened over the span of this country’s ungainly, unworkable existence. Which means that Coyne could be right tomorrow, but so far has been wrong for the past 158 years.

In The Crisis of Canadian Democracy, Andrew Coyne fears and foretells the fall of Canada, not through annexation by some demented megalomaniac, but because of our self-worsening, writes Christopher Dornan. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER DORNAN

December 8, 2025

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