Mmmmmm..... quite debatable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/04/25/is-canada-really-a-true-democracy/?utm_term=.8335c8ef272b

Headline of the Halifax Morning Chronicle on July 1, 1867: 

"Died! Last night at 12 o'clock, the free and enlightened Province of Nova Scotia."