Democracy is a
fragile thing.
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| Dr Kevin Taft. |
It can falter in the face of many threats, among them
violence, despotic personalities and today, as is evident in many places, the
assault of money.
Democracy of the modern era frequently falls at the feet of
the rich and subsequently polluted and derailed from being attendant to the wider
need of the public interest.
Radio National this morning talked with a member of the
Legislative Assembly in Alberta, Canada, and a former leader of that country’s
Liberal Opposition Party for four years from 2004, Dr Kevin Taft, who lamented the
current state of democracy in his country.
In an interview entitled “Democracy ‘captured’ by carbon industry in Canada: Taft”, he discusses the echoes of what he has seen happen
in Canada, reverberating in Australia.
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