Question

explain democracy is at risk in Canada as a result of an increased attitude to populisim.  

Answer 1

With a looming federal election, Canadians face a preference about the path of their country.
But a recent survey suggests Canadians are divided on the merits of their personal system. Close to 1/2 of the 3,500 members in a countrywide survey by Simon Fraser University stated they agree with vote casting exerts little influence on how a authorities is truly run.
Despite nearly 80 per cent of respondents reporting they would be greater likely to vote for a candidate who stood up for the "common people" over "the elite," a strong majority stated a candidate who attacked the media or promoted anti-government views would lose their support.
Michael Morden, the research director with the Samara Centre for Democracy, argues that Canada is unique in its resistance to the world trend towards authoritarianism.

Morden makes the case that authoritarian populism, however, is a different beast entirely — one that isn't a threat to Canada.

Resistance to authoritarian populism, Morden said, comes from recognition and democratic involvement.
"Canadians are talking about politics more. They're greater in all likelihood to attain out to politicians, they express more activity in democracy, and they experience that politics influences their lives. So there has been some evidence of growing engagement,"

There is not one clear-cut reason, Graves said, that explains why world politics are leaning toward authoritarian populism. Instead, he cites a aggregate of countless factors, consisting of financial despair, cultural backlash, the erosion of the center class and a looming experience of external threat.
"Once you put all these factors together, they coalesce and percolate, and then they produce this authoritarian reflex. The elements that produce it are slow and had been growing for decades. But the authentic emergence of the pressure itself is moving at a very rapid pace,"

Regardless of his concerns around the kingdom of Canadian democracy, Graves doesn't see Canada as trapped in a trajectory toward turning into a "more closed, ordered, pull-up-the-drawbridge, turn-back-the-clock, let's-make-Canada-great-again" society.
"I think that there is a right chance that we ought to keep away from that, and I would agree that in some respects Canada may be better poised to keep away from this than different places,"