Canada, a country that understands the value of diversity and civil society, is well positioned to share those values and strengthen democracy in the developing world, says the leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims Canada has successfully constructed a public sphere predicated on the ethic of respect for human dignity. It recognizes and builds on difference, enables a spirit of compromise and consensus in public and legislative policies, and marks out a healthy space for the role of civil society as a sound (indeed, essential) bulwark for democratic processes. Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the...
