"Indicating further integration with its closest
neighbour and ally's foreign policy priorities, the Canadian government
is in the advanced stages of establishing a foundation to promote
liberal democracy, akin to the controversial U.S. National Endowment
for Democracy.
Last December, the minority Conservative
government of Stephen Harper quietly tabled in parliament a bipartisan
blue panel report titled, "Advisory Panel Report on the Creation of a
Canadian Democracy Promotion Agency". The panel is recommending that
the government create The Canadian Centre for Advancing Democracy, with
a proposed budget of between 28 million and 65 million U.S. dollars per
year." [Anthony Fenton, via IPS]