{"id":1319,"date":"2025-04-27T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2025-04-27T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:14:26","slug":"a-view-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"A View from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the strained relations with Canada, I&#8217;m forwarding this opinion piece from <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em> in Ontario. I received it yesterday from George Shafer, a correspondent who lives in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Shafer is a frequent contributor to these pages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article-title\">\n<header>\n<div id=\"skip-link-target\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<h1 class=\"c-primary-title article-title text-pb-5 c-primary-title-feature\">What the Trump assault on American democracy has taught us<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-grid l-grid--main\">\n<div id=\"c0f3F47tDNih73u\" class=\"default__LayoutContainer-sc-1puaqpm-0 gzbPxE\">\n<section class=\"default__StyledArticleMeta-sc-j9q6w6-0 dCnxlb text-gmr-5 c-article-meta\" data-sophi-feature=\"article meta\">\n<div class=\"o-media\">\n<div class=\"o-media__media\">\n<div class=\"c-article-meta__image c-article-meta__image--small\">\n<div class=\"Image__StyledImageWrapper-sc-2118b8-0 gSYAEG c-image-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/https%3A%2F%2Fauthor-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub%2Ftgam%2Ff4770a45-5160-4b39-9554-b0365b7dd3a4.JPG?auth=9ef8c468496b44ac47a8409fed548d2e45a1db7ae30ee60fac811a54326ecd5e&amp;width=300&amp;height=200&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" sizes=\"auto, 70px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/https%3A%2F%2Fauthor-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub%2Ftgam%2Ff4770a45-5160-4b39-9554-b0365b7dd3a4.JPG?auth=9ef8c468496b44ac47a8409fed548d2e45a1db7ae30ee60fac811a54326ecd5e&amp;width=300&amp;height=200&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true 300w\" alt=\"Marcus Gee\" width=\"70\" height=\"47\" data-aspect-ratio-debug=\"unknown-height desired[3:2] selected[3:2] available[r3x2,r1x1]\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o-media__body\">\n<div class=\"c-article-meta__bylines\"><a class=\"BylineWithBeats__StyledBylineLink-sc-15ymtyr-1 eFiWik text-gml-3 pb-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/authors\/marcus-gee\/\">Marcus Gee<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-meta__placelines text-gmr-5 pb-8\">Toronto<\/div>\n<p><time class=\"c-timestamp u-no-wrap text-gmr-5 font-gmsans\" datetime=\"2025-04-25T23:55:50.66Z\">Published April 25, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In a way, Donald Trump has taught us a valuable lesson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">His assault on American democracy has shown how fragile and precious democratic institutions are. His contempt for our system of alliances has shown us how vulnerable we would be if that shield were to fall away. His decision to use tariffs as a club reveals how much we rely on international trade and commerce for our prosperity. All three of those pillars \u2013 democracy, alliances, trade \u2013 were already under threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">After advancing in many parts of the world in the latter part of the 20th century, democracy has been in retreat in the 21st. One recent\u00a0report, by Sweden\u2019s V-Dem Institute, said that for the first time in more than two decades the world has more autocracies than democracies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Now, under\u00a0Mr. Trump, democracy is at risk even in its citadel, the United States. His attacks on the media, on the universities, on the judiciary, on the legal profession \u2013 in fact, on just about every institution that could check his power \u2013 show that even in a country with a venerable, widely respected constitution and generations of democratic tradition, a determined person can do terrible damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Our system of alliances grew shaky after the end of the Cold War. Without the Soviet threat, the greatest of them, NATO, struggled to find a purpose. Defence spending stagnated in many countries, as Mr. Trump was only too willing to tell them when he first became president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">NATO began to recover with Vladimir Putin\u2019sattack on Ukraine. Its response to the Russian threat was vigorous and united. Now that Mr. Trump is back for a second term, heaping disdain on Washington\u2019s NATO partners when he is not ignoring them altogether, the need for a strong defence network becomes even clearer. Just look at what happens when a rogue president tries to freelance international diplomacy, as he is doing so clumsily over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Now consider trade. The chaos in the stock markets is just one sign of the damage the Trumpian trade wars could cause. The International Monetary Fund forecast this week that<b>\u00a0<\/b>global economic growth would slow to 2.8 per cent in 2025, a drop from the 3.3 per cent<b>\u00a0<\/b>it<b>\u00a0<\/b>had predicted earlier. The reason: \u201cTrade tensions and extremely high levels of policy uncertainty.\u201d In other words, Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The U.S. President has been like a dose of smelling salts for a slumbering world. Over recent decades, people in advanced democratic countries have become complacent and cynical. Many of us find modern democratic politics fake, dishonest and corrupt. Voter turnout has been dropping, distrust of the media rising, misinformation spreading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Significant numbers of us find the economic system that has made Western countries so rich to be equally corrupt. Globalization became a dirty word, not to mention (gasp) capitalism. We grew blind to what we had gained through the advance of freer trade and more open markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The World Bank says that since 1990, \u201ctrade has increased incomes by 24 per cent globally and by 50 per cent for the poorest 40 per cent of the population,\u201d lifting more than a billion people out of dire poverty. The\u00a0Trump tariffs\u00a0threaten those advances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad--base l-media\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Many of us barely think about what it takes to safeguard our safety. Defence and security barely register in Canadian elections. We have been lounging under the American military umbrella for too long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Perhaps the gods sent us Donald Trump as a warning. Like Dickens\u2019s Ghost of Christmas Future, he is showing us just how bad things might be. As the song goes, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve got till it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Let\u2019s not wait till that happens. Instead, Let\u2019s renew our faith in the three pillars \u2013 democracy, alliances, trade \u2013 that he seems so perversely determined to destroy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the strained relations with Canada, I&#8217;m forwarding this opinion piece from The Globe and Mail in Ontario. I received it yesterday from George Shafer, a correspondent who lives in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Shafer is a frequent contributor to these pages. 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