In a recent opinion piece in the Toronto Star, staff journalist Justin Ling argues that to improve productivity, Canada needs to tolerate more corruption. This is nonsense – in fact the reverse is true. As he says, simply creating more bureaucracy in response to each scandal doesn’t work.
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.
