section_path: Reception/Canada
section_name: Canada
paragraph_text: Canada
  
  Alissa Wang, co-chair, summit studies, BRICS Research Group, University of Toronto, in a presentation prepared in July 2023, discusses that the possibility of BRICS becoming anti-western is not likely. The group consists of three democracies – Brazil, India, South Africa, and two non-democratic regimes – Russia, China, this political diversity limits the group uniting on an anti-western stance. Further a BRICS expansion would strengthen the group economically but political jointness could be negatively affected.