CIA's Global Trends 2015 Report

I thought this is an interesting projection document put out by the C.I.A called Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Non-Governmental Experts published in 2000. Explaining it is a letter from the previous director of the CIA, George Tenet.

This section in particular Worldwide Adherents of Selected Major World Religions, Mid-1998 is all too familiar.

Excerpt about Canada being able to stay honest:

"The developed democracies will be best positioned for good governance
because they will tend to empower legitimate nonstate actors in both the
for-profit and nonprofit sectors; will favor institutions and processes that
accommodate divergent communal groups; will press for transparency in government and the efficient delivery of public services; and will maintain institutions to regulate legitimate for-profit and nonprofit organizations and control illegitimate criminal groups. Countries in Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan have the requisite agility and institutions to meet the challenges."

Umm... I beg to differ on this assumption on Canada.