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.
In a recent column in the Toronto Star, Tonda MacCharles highlighted what she saw as an inconsistency between the argument currently being made before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Bill 21 case, that governments should remain neutral in religious matters, and the assertion by Prime Minister Carney in a recent speech that “religious values can and should frame how politicians act”. 
