Edition: U.S. / Global

Canadian Democracy

Published: September 27, 2003

To the Editor:

Re ''Gay Wedding Bells. Why No Hubbub? It's Canada'' (Letter From the Americas, Sept. 24):

If it is true that Canada has built ''a consensus among disparate provinces to join in a confederation loosely governed by a weak central government,'' it seems that our neighbor to the north has achieved what the founders so desperately wanted for themselves and those of us who followed: a true Jeffersonian democracy.


New York, Sept. 24, 2003