Rex Murphy: Justin Trudeau, not much or frequently given to philosophizing on world affairs, recently gave an address to the Ukrainian community in Etobicoke, Ont. Inevitably it was about Vladimir Putin’s savage war against Ukraine. And yet it had a perhaps unintended reference to our own country.
he core of his musings came with some reflections on the world’s democracies. He began by alerting his audience that, “We’ve come to a moment that, quite frankly, we’ve seen coming over the past years.” And what pray tell is that moment? It’s the moment “about democracies around the world (in which) we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies.”
This is an interesting description. Words are important, as Barack Obama once observed of Hillary Clinton, and these words are no exception. Nothing serious here for “our” democracies. Just a bit of a slippage. Not a full tumble now, a head over heels moment, or a real fall, but merely a little skid.
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