Among the world’s police states, Beijing is downright triumphalist these days. Among the world’s police states, Beijing is downright triumphalist these daysCanada stands out in this particular sort of squalor. In the Freedom House annual report for 2018, there’s some good news mixed in with the bad. But Turkey — a NATO member — has been undergoing an ugly transformation from secular republic to neo-Ottoman caliphate under Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Freedom House now ranks Turkey as not free. Of the 193 UN member states ranked by Freedom House, Canada comes out in the top four countries, behind only Sweden, Finland and Norway, which racked up perfect scores.

Source: National Post January 02, 2019 19:18 UTC