By focusing solely on China or Russia and other state actors, Canada is missing the potentially far more troubling forces that proved so disruptive during last year’s convoy protest, Susan Delacourt writes.
The same reason it works for the US. A bigger population, all else being equal, means higher economic output and therefore larger political influence internationally relative to other players. If Canada had 1B population, groups in the US would have found it much harder to exert any significant influence over our politics given how much louder than them our voices would be. By voices think all types political voces, individual, collective, etc.
I think there is an underlying assumption that our current situation with the right is largely due to external influences. I’m of the opinion, that while the expression of the ideology is globally crowdsourced, we would have a similar percentage of wingnuts with or without American influence.
It seems to me that the economic disenfranchisement of the average Canadian is the primary force polarizing people politically, which would also explain the simultaneous resurgence of fascism globally (notibly, outside of the anglosphere)
How would that help?
The same reason it works for the US. A bigger population, all else being equal, means higher economic output and therefore larger political influence internationally relative to other players. If Canada had 1B population, groups in the US would have found it much harder to exert any significant influence over our politics given how much louder than them our voices would be. By voices think all types political voces, individual, collective, etc.
I think there is an underlying assumption that our current situation with the right is largely due to external influences. I’m of the opinion, that while the expression of the ideology is globally crowdsourced, we would have a similar percentage of wingnuts with or without American influence.
It seems to me that the economic disenfranchisement of the average Canadian is the primary force polarizing people politically, which would also explain the simultaneous resurgence of fascism globally (notibly, outside of the anglosphere)