“Superpowers die hard” and the United States is losing its place in the world according to an associate politics professor at Mount Allison University.
Referencing the chaotic events at the U.S. Capitol this week, Mario Levesque says this is something you would normally see in a third world country – not a first world democracy.
He believes this may only be the beginning.
“This type of behaviour is going to continue… I think it’s going to be rocky probably for another 15 or 20 years as the U.S. has to make room for other countries to be leaders around the world.”
After the Second World War, Levesque says the same thing happened to the United Kingdom when it was displaced as a superpower.
He thinks Canada has a brokering role to play in the years ahead and feels it is our strength.
“(We should) stay true to our moderate viewpoints, stay true to our more inclusive and diverse viewpoints… and looking to broker or compromise between different interests all the time.”
Levesque says Canada’s history is very different compared to the United States which was founded on war while our origins are traced to people sitting around a table negotiating.
