Democracy Index

Now it should be understood that I display this table because of what we as citizens enjoy under the framework of our democracy. That one would like to see all countries have a basis from which to "sign up to a dated version" of a Full Democracy.

Now there would be some dispute here as to the legitimacy of this report, based on a scientific valuation, and the fact, that it had been pulled from the Internet, did not exclude the potential to store this information before it was pulled.

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s democracy index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. The five categories are interrelated and form a coherent conceptual whole. The condition of having free and fair competitive elections, and satisfying related aspects of political freedom, is clearly the basic requirement of all definitions. All modern definitions, except the most minimalist, also consider civil liberties to be a vital component of what is often called “liberal democracy”. The principle of the protection of basic human rights is widely accepted. It is embodied in constitutions throughout the world as well as in the UN Charter and international agreements such as the Helsinki Final Act. Basic human rights include freedom of speech, expression and the press; freedom of religion; freedom of assembly and association; and the right to due judicial process. All democracies are systems in which citizens freely make political decisions by majority rule. But rule by the majority is not necessarily democratic.In a democracy majority rule must be combined with guarantees of individual human rights and the rights of minorities.

"IN bold" the allegation I made to a full democracy.

I display the table below to indicate the factors and derivatives of this assertion, so that one gets the idea that the methodology of this report, also has a basic derivative with which to judge countries of the world according to regime type. These categories would be listed as, Full Democracies, Flawed Democracies, Hybrid Regimes and Authoritarian Regimes.

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s
index of democracy By Laza Kekic, director, country forecasting services, Economist Intelligence Unit

Now the point here is to ascertain what makes a democracy a full democracy and whether there is statistical evidence, in an up to day report, since this is from 2006.

I base this then, that a "full democracy" according to this report should have the following.

Basic human rights include freedom of speech, expression and the press; freedom of religion; freedom of assembly and association; and the right to due judicial process. All democracies are systems in which citizens freely make political decisions by majority rule. But rule by the majority is not necessarily democratic.In a democracy majority rule must be combined with guarantees of individual human rights and the rights of minorities.

Now Canada currently ranks 9th in this assessment with the United States at 17.

If one was to include the rights of the citizens of this country under the laws of the Health Act, then I would say that Canada's resulting placement would drop substantially under the current Government elected. The Minority Government(regardless of what the professors say about giving this government a mandate to move ahead while meeting EU president) who would possibly seek to amend our constitution to appease for profit clinics in regard to the Health Act, and in recognition of the Violations taking place.

While these violations are taking place and ignored, the current Government elect is being complicit with disregarding "the law" with which this country was instituted.