EXPOSED: Inside Canada’s Democratic Decline | Centralized Power, Media Capture & Bill C-5

20/11/2025 49 min Episodio 53
EXPOSED: Inside Canada’s Democratic Decline | Centralized Power, Media Capture & Bill C-5

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Canada’s budget 2025 crisis is spiraling into a democratic collapse; and expert warns; Canada’s democracy is dying! Canada’s democracy, media control, and government power grab are pointers to democratic decline. Political scientist Dr. Lydia Miljan joins Afolarin on the Revaluate Podcast to expose how government spending, rising deficits, government control, media subsidies, and Bill C-5 are eroding free speech and democracy in Canada; mirroring the playbook of 1933 Germany. Expert warns that Canada’s new Budget 2025 will quietly reshaping democracy and power — and most Canadians don’t even realize it. 
In this wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Miljan breaks down how Ottawa’s subsidies have compromised press independence, how Bill C-5 and centralizing laws expand executive power, and why the Trudeau–Carney era of politics threatens accountability and freedom in Canada.
From media capture and judicial activism to the decline of open debate in universities, this episode examines how nations lose democracy not through coups, but through slow, bureaucratic control.
If you care about free speech, government transparency, and the future of Canadian democracy, this is the conversation to watch.
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Is Canada still a democracy — or are we quietly losing it?
Summary:
This video analyzes concerns about government borrowing and its potential impact on the economics and financial stability.. It highlights the risks of increasing national debt explained, and its effect on financial stability. Prudent financial management and responsible debt management through fiscal policy is vital.
 
Timestamps:
(00:00) – Intro: Canada's Democracy in Jeopardy
(01:23) – Canada’s Budget Crisis & Rising Government Spending
(05:20) – Carney Trump Trade Negotiations & Carney’s Economic Record
(08:38) – Deficit Warnings: How Ottawa’s Debt Threatens the Economy
(12:45) – Mark Carney Remains Canadians' Choice
(15:35) – Expanding Power & Weakening Accountability: Lydia Miljan
(16:10) – Media Subsidies and the Capture of Canadian Press Freedom
(17:52) – Free Speech Under Pressure in Canada’s Democracy
(19:22) – Bill C-5 Explained: Centralized Power in the Trudeau–Carney Era
(23:14) – Judicial Activism and the Overreach of Government Control
(26:02) – Canada Must Learn From The Attack on Charlie Kirk
(30:18) – 1933 Germany Parallels: Lessons for Modern Canada
(33:52) – The Future of Canadian Democracy & Fiscal Responsibility
(36:40) – Revisiting The Freedom Convoy Saga & Gov't Overreach 
(43:20) – How Bureaucratic Control Erodes Democratic Institutions
(46:56) – Can Canada Reverse the Decline?

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