With the precipitous decline of democracy in the United States, it is all too easy to ignore that Canada’s democracy is in decline as well. We ignore the signs at our peril.
Literally the argument the article is criticizing. Don’t compare one country to another like that. Sure you can take specific examples of how something doesn’t work in certain circumstances, but doing a direct compare just to say “At least we’re not as bad as ____” is ultimately defeatist.
Our system is better than the US’s system. By just a hair but it is better, but yes we need election reform.
Literally the argument the article is criticizing. Don’t compare one country to another like that. Sure you can take specific examples of how something doesn’t work in certain circumstances, but doing a direct compare just to say “At least we’re not as bad as ____” is ultimately defeatist.