I asked the Google AI for a list of defining characteristics of a state devolving into fascism. It returned a list of 16 such characteristics. Disturbingly, the Trump Administration is already so far advanced on nearly all of them that no impartial observer could consider them to be anything but fascist.
At a recent Kingston event, I heard about a recent U.S. border experience. A woman and her husband were driving on a routine trip to visit family in the U.S. At the U.S. point of entry, the border officer had only one question: how she felt about Canada becoming the 51st state. You won’t believe what happened next.
Democracy is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.” Canadians enjoy an arguably imperfect but still functional democracy which is...