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I am growing increasingly alarmed as I watch democracy being eroded and Canadians standing by. It is not dissimilar to the unwillingness to take definitive action on climate change. The bottom line is that with the present leadership and without a democratic parliament, changes we need will not happen.

One of my hobbies is reading (and trying to understand) history and why we make, or don’t make, the rational choices that benefit all of us in the long term. Over the years I have watched countries advance or regress and sometimes self-destruct. More