EPISODE · Nov 25, 2011 · 3 MIN
TVO's The Agenda: To Lead or to Serve - Videocast
from Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism · host Akaash Maharaj
Over the past quarter century, political parties have too often lurched away from being mass movements of individual Canadians sharing a common vision of the public good, and towards being backdrops for individual party leaders who speak the language of democracy while wielding near-absolute power over their elected caucuses.
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Ultimately, active participation in the political process is the price that each of us must stand prepared to pay if we wish to be citizens rather than merely subjects. Because in a democracy, we never receive the nation we deserve; we only receive the nation we demand, and the nation we dare to create.
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