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���Over 7 months, 58 organizations whose work shapes and depends on Canadian democracy shared their diagnosis, their frustrations, and their proposals. This is what they said, what the evidence shows, and what to build next.���

So beings the newly released report, The Case for a Canadian Democracy Coalition, which serves both as a What We Heard report from interviews with sector leaders and a series of recommendations to increase alignment and collective action among organizations working to improve Canadian democracy.

Report author and consultant Steve Joneslee writes: ���The strategy proposed here is: build a broad, nonpartisan ecosystem of organizations that depend on democratic conditions, with a dedicated coordination entity at its centre, and use that ecosystem to launch issue-specific coalitions, secure sustainable funding, and shift Canada's democratic culture from something people take for granted to something people actively maintain.���

Joneslee also provides important international comparators for the magnitude of response required to counter current threats to democracy:

���Peer democracies are already acting. Canada's allies have begun treating democratic resilience as a national security priority. The European Union's Democracy Shield provides coordinated support for civil society and democratic infrastructure, with the European Commission proposing 9 billion euros over 7 years��列anada's democracy sector has no equivalent coordination, no equivalent public investment, and no equivalent framework for treating democratic infrastructure as essential.���

The Centre for Dialogue���s Robin Prest served as a co-designer for this initiative, alongside Sam Reusch (), Niamh Leonard (), Amanda Munday (), Mason Ducharme () and John Beebe ().

Prest explains: ���This initiative highlights critical opportunities to foster democratic resilience and renewal in Canada using evidence-based approaches.���

The full report is available online now and includes a recommended strategy for the sector, an accounting of the themes from the interview process (including access to the raw data behind these) and a proof-of-concept Atlas that maps 151 organizations who work in or adjacent to Canadian Democracy, alongside interactive visualizations to help explore the findings.