Essay On Democracy In Canada

Canada has relative advantage of experiences in conducting elections, ensuring peace, policy making and integrating gender equality, managing civil and common law codes, preventing conflicts, etc. Outputs of Global Economic Governance Program require western countries to prioritize the import of other country expertise with the aim to complement its own expertise and not for substituting the same. Traditionally Canada has been working towards getting freedom to make decision and ensuring international stability for betterment of its people. This view has been recently changed and focus is now towards restoring democracy. Literature review of 1980s led to this thinking that two democratic countries do not go to war with each other. The policy
implication for this is that the international stability may be guaranteed best by liberal and good democracy. However, it has been long understood that path of democratic process is not reversible in the sense that under implementation of effective democracy will be conflict ridden and exploitable by terrorism. Also early phase of heading towards democracy may be highly risky because of possibilities of war. Any under prepared attempt to democratize can increase the probability of conflict and actual progress may be back tracked. Democracy is a type of governance that relies on consent of people, targeting for common goals of people to improve their situation. It has been highly publicized in literatures that due to its collaborative style of working with other countries, Canada has special talent and capabilities to enable it to progress into the business of promoting democracy internationally for ensuring international stability and freedom for its people to make decisions they want to take. However as a country, Canada do not have decades of history into democracy but recent experiences and experimentations only. So it has not devoted much time in handling challenges of failed states and it has failure history of its inability to use foreign financial grants for providing better and effective democratic governance for its people. Their efforts have been lacking focus and system resulting in impossible situation to access or measure the success or even understand the cost implications of promoting democracy. Literatures for 1990s have already witnessed the backfire of democracy promotion, when many countries craving for democracy failed to achieve the democratic transition.
The failure was mainly attributed to not able to implement liberal and good democracy, unable to support and protect the participation of people in the democracy process and inability to provide political, civil, economic or social rights to its people for their betterment. Hence for Canada, main priority should be to ensure good democracy first inside their own country and then go for democracy promotion business outside to achieve international stability or freedom of making decisions for its people. Note: This paper attempted to access the prevalence of democracy in Canada based on statistical test which signifies the association of Liberal democracy with Economic and Social growth measures such as above average GDP growth rate. No literature however attempted to do this; we find it prudent to do with an assumption that country which is impacted by international instability, lack of freedom to make decision for its people or lack of liberal democracy will be war ridden, conflict ridden and unlikely to have above average GDP growth. So above average GDP growth rate has been assumed to be benefits of effective, good and liberal
democracy.