Metaviews: Future of Authority

Metaviews: Future of Authority

198: Polite Authoritarianism

Why Canada’s democracy is being dismantled—politely, legally, and with minimal resistance

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Jesse Hirsh
Jun 11, 2025
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You don’t need a strongman to have a dictatorship. You just need laws that make resistance impossible.

Canada prides itself on being a democracy defined by civility, consensus, and constitutional order. But in 2025, those very virtues are being used to quietly strip away the foundations of that democracy. Not with jackboots, but with legislation. Not wit…

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