Author: Mike Harris
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752230
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Vision for a Canada Strong and Free
Author: Mike Harris
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752230
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752230
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Right Here, Right Now
Author: Stephen J. Harper
Publisher: Signal
ISBN: 077103864X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Including a new and insightful afterword by the author, Stephen J. Harper, Canada's 22nd Prime Minister, draws on a decade of experience as a G-7 leader to help leaders in business and government understand, adapt, and thrive in an age of unprecedented disruption. The world is in flux. Disruptive technologies, ideas, and politicians are challenging business models, norms, and political conventions everywhere. How we, as leaders in business and politics, choose to respond matters greatly. Some voices refuse to concede the need for any change, while others advocate for radical realignment. But neither of these positions can sustainably address the legitimate concerns of disaffected citizens. Right Here, Right Now sets out a pragmatic, forward-looking vision for leaders in business and politics by analyzing how economic, social, and public policy trends--including globalized movements of capital, goods and services, and labour--have affected our economies, communities, and governments. Harper contends that Donald Trump's surprise election and governing agenda clearly signal that political, economic, and social institutions must be more responsive to legitimate concerns about public policy, market regulation, immigration, and technology. Urging readers to look past questions of style and gravitas, Harper thoughtfully examines the substantive underpinnings of how and why Donald Trump was able to succeed Barack Obama as President of the United States, and how these forces are manifesting themselves in other western democracies. Analyzing international trade, market regulation, immigration, technology, and the role of government in the digital economy, Harper lays out the case for pragmatic leadership as a proven solution to the uncertainty and risk that businesses and governments face today.
Publisher: Signal
ISBN: 077103864X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Including a new and insightful afterword by the author, Stephen J. Harper, Canada's 22nd Prime Minister, draws on a decade of experience as a G-7 leader to help leaders in business and government understand, adapt, and thrive in an age of unprecedented disruption. The world is in flux. Disruptive technologies, ideas, and politicians are challenging business models, norms, and political conventions everywhere. How we, as leaders in business and politics, choose to respond matters greatly. Some voices refuse to concede the need for any change, while others advocate for radical realignment. But neither of these positions can sustainably address the legitimate concerns of disaffected citizens. Right Here, Right Now sets out a pragmatic, forward-looking vision for leaders in business and politics by analyzing how economic, social, and public policy trends--including globalized movements of capital, goods and services, and labour--have affected our economies, communities, and governments. Harper contends that Donald Trump's surprise election and governing agenda clearly signal that political, economic, and social institutions must be more responsive to legitimate concerns about public policy, market regulation, immigration, and technology. Urging readers to look past questions of style and gravitas, Harper thoughtfully examines the substantive underpinnings of how and why Donald Trump was able to succeed Barack Obama as President of the United States, and how these forces are manifesting themselves in other western democracies. Analyzing international trade, market regulation, immigration, technology, and the role of government in the digital economy, Harper lays out the case for pragmatic leadership as a proven solution to the uncertainty and risk that businesses and governments face today.
Do Something!
Author: Preston Manning
Publisher: Sutherland House
ISBN: 9781989555255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Democracy in Canada is in deep trouble." Politicians, legislatures and parliament are widely mistrusted. Canadians do not see their issues and concerns reflected in the priorities of the people elected to serve them. The rise of populism is one symptom of a crisis. Others are low voter turnouts and an increasingly vicious public sphere. It is time for Canadians to repair and strengthen their democracy. It is time to Do Something! In this riveting and inspirational book, author and parliamentarian Preston Manning calls on Canadians of all beliefs and allegiances to renew their nation's democracy and the ideas, processes,and institutions that support it. Drawing on a lifetime of public service, he offers 365 practical ways that readers can get involved and make a difference, in their communities, on the national stage, or around the world. "There is an old saying," writes Manning, "that a Canadian optimist is someone who believes things could be worse. But I am an optimist who believes the future can be better if enough of us resolve to make it so."
Publisher: Sutherland House
ISBN: 9781989555255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Democracy in Canada is in deep trouble." Politicians, legislatures and parliament are widely mistrusted. Canadians do not see their issues and concerns reflected in the priorities of the people elected to serve them. The rise of populism is one symptom of a crisis. Others are low voter turnouts and an increasingly vicious public sphere. It is time for Canadians to repair and strengthen their democracy. It is time to Do Something! In this riveting and inspirational book, author and parliamentarian Preston Manning calls on Canadians of all beliefs and allegiances to renew their nation's democracy and the ideas, processes,and institutions that support it. Drawing on a lifetime of public service, he offers 365 practical ways that readers can get involved and make a difference, in their communities, on the national stage, or around the world. "There is an old saying," writes Manning, "that a Canadian optimist is someone who believes things could be worse. But I am an optimist who believes the future can be better if enough of us resolve to make it so."
Why Young Men
Author: Jamil Jivani
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443453218
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Longlisted for the Toronto Book Award The day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men responsible were familiar to him. He didn’t know them, but the communities they grew up in and the challenges they faced mirrored the circumstances of his own life. Jivani travelled to Belgium in February 2016 to better understand the roots of jihadi radicalization. Less than two months later, Brussels fell victim to a terrorist attack carried out by young men who lived in the same neighbourhood as him. Jivani was raised in a mostly immigrant community in Toronto that faced significant problems with integration. Having grown up with a largely absent father, he knows what it is to watch a man’s future influenced by gangster culture or radical ideologies associated with Islam. Jivani found himself at a crossroads: he could follow the kind of life we hear about too often in the media, or he could choose a safe, prosperous future. He opted for the latter, attending Yale and becoming a lawyer, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and a powerful speaker for the disenfranchised. Why Young Men is not a memoir but a book of ideas that pursues a positive path and offers a counterintuitive, often provocative argument for a sea change in the way we look at young men, and for how they see themselves.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443453218
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Longlisted for the Toronto Book Award The day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men responsible were familiar to him. He didn’t know them, but the communities they grew up in and the challenges they faced mirrored the circumstances of his own life. Jivani travelled to Belgium in February 2016 to better understand the roots of jihadi radicalization. Less than two months later, Brussels fell victim to a terrorist attack carried out by young men who lived in the same neighbourhood as him. Jivani was raised in a mostly immigrant community in Toronto that faced significant problems with integration. Having grown up with a largely absent father, he knows what it is to watch a man’s future influenced by gangster culture or radical ideologies associated with Islam. Jivani found himself at a crossroads: he could follow the kind of life we hear about too often in the media, or he could choose a safe, prosperous future. He opted for the latter, attending Yale and becoming a lawyer, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and a powerful speaker for the disenfranchised. Why Young Men is not a memoir but a book of ideas that pursues a positive path and offers a counterintuitive, often provocative argument for a sea change in the way we look at young men, and for how they see themselves.
A Canada Strong and Free
Author: Mike Harris
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752141
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752141
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
The Victim Cult
Author: Mark Mike
Publisher: Thomas & Black
ISBN: 9780968791592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Victim Cult tackles the worldwide grievance culture and from ancient Rome to the White House today and on to campuses where some think themselves victims of "micro-aggressions." The book also looks at how corrosive victim thinking fuels movements as diverse as violent Antifa anarchists, Black Lives Matter protesters, and Donald Trump's "Capitol Hill" demonstrators.
Publisher: Thomas & Black
ISBN: 9780968791592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Victim Cult tackles the worldwide grievance culture and from ancient Rome to the White House today and on to campuses where some think themselves victims of "micro-aggressions." The book also looks at how corrosive victim thinking fuels movements as diverse as violent Antifa anarchists, Black Lives Matter protesters, and Donald Trump's "Capitol Hill" demonstrators.
Gardeners Vs. Designers
Author: Brian Lee Crowley
Publisher: Sutherland House Books
ISBN: 9781989555354
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A political essay about Canadian government style and a call for a new type of conservative leadership, Crowley claims that Canadian politicians need to be less of a "designer" (top-down pronouncements) and more of a "gardener" (working from the bottom up, cultivating instead of engineering). Having divided thinkers about society into these two large categories, Crowley tells us that the designers believe that they have sufficient knowledge or data to bring about precisely the end that they desire (or at least that they say that they desire, though their drive to power should never be underestimated) without any deleterious unintended consequences, whereas the gardeners are more modest and are content to work with what already exists, especially where whatever already exists has virtues or beauties. This is not a call to inaction or passivity: gardeners have a profound influence on the gardens that they cultivate, but they do not fall prey to the delusion that they can create anything they like irrespective of the climate, soil, nature of the plants available, etc."--
Publisher: Sutherland House Books
ISBN: 9781989555354
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A political essay about Canadian government style and a call for a new type of conservative leadership, Crowley claims that Canadian politicians need to be less of a "designer" (top-down pronouncements) and more of a "gardener" (working from the bottom up, cultivating instead of engineering). Having divided thinkers about society into these two large categories, Crowley tells us that the designers believe that they have sufficient knowledge or data to bring about precisely the end that they desire (or at least that they say that they desire, though their drive to power should never be underestimated) without any deleterious unintended consequences, whereas the gardeners are more modest and are content to work with what already exists, especially where whatever already exists has virtues or beauties. This is not a call to inaction or passivity: gardeners have a profound influence on the gardens that they cultivate, but they do not fall prey to the delusion that they can create anything they like irrespective of the climate, soil, nature of the plants available, etc."--
International Leadership by a Canada Strong and Free
Author: Mike Harris
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752176
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Annotation "In this fifth volume of the Canada Strong and Free series, Mike Harris and Preston Manning call for Canada to reclaim its leadership role in the international arena. They focus on three foreign policy priorities which would enable Canada to significantly advance its national interests and international influence across a broad front." "Freer international trade offers the most effective means of increasing Canadian prosperity and sustaining essential social services." "Harris and Manning propose a Canada-US Customs Union involving a common external tariff, a joint approach to the treatment of third-country goods, a fully integrated energy market, a common approach to trade remedies and border security, and an integrated government procurement regime." "Harris and Manning recommend the adoption of the Tools of Wealth Creation approach to attacking poverty - focusing not on the redistribution of wealth but on a broader distribution of tools for creating wealth such as property rights, access to capital, human capital development, access to technology, and access to trade markets. They also propose greater use of public-private partnerships for infrastructure and vaccine development, reforming CIDA, completely untying food aid from any requirements that it be provided from Canadian sources, and the new paradigm of providing aid and peacekeeping simultaneously in conflict and post-conflict situations."--Jacket.
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752176
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Annotation "In this fifth volume of the Canada Strong and Free series, Mike Harris and Preston Manning call for Canada to reclaim its leadership role in the international arena. They focus on three foreign policy priorities which would enable Canada to significantly advance its national interests and international influence across a broad front." "Freer international trade offers the most effective means of increasing Canadian prosperity and sustaining essential social services." "Harris and Manning propose a Canada-US Customs Union involving a common external tariff, a joint approach to the treatment of third-country goods, a fully integrated energy market, a common approach to trade remedies and border security, and an integrated government procurement regime." "Harris and Manning recommend the adoption of the Tools of Wealth Creation approach to attacking poverty - focusing not on the redistribution of wealth but on a broader distribution of tools for creating wealth such as property rights, access to capital, human capital development, access to technology, and access to trade markets. They also propose greater use of public-private partnerships for infrastructure and vaccine development, reforming CIDA, completely untying food aid from any requirements that it be provided from Canadian sources, and the new paradigm of providing aid and peacekeeping simultaneously in conflict and post-conflict situations."--Jacket.
Building Prosperity in a Canada Strong and Free
Author: Mike Harris
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752389
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Excessive government taxation and spending limit the economic freedom of individuals and businesses by reducing their incomes and transferring economic decision-making powers into the hands of politicians and bureaucrats.
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752389
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Excessive government taxation and spending limit the economic freedom of individuals and businesses by reducing their incomes and transferring economic decision-making powers into the hands of politicians and bureaucrats.
Caring for Canadians in a Canada Strong and Free
Author: Mike Harris
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752265
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Examines the "democratic deficit" present in Confederation today and applies to it these foundational principles: expanding Canadians' freedom of choice; challenging Canadians to accept greater personal responsibility; and deepening Canada's practice of federal democracy."
Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN: 0889752265
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Examines the "democratic deficit" present in Confederation today and applies to it these foundational principles: expanding Canadians' freedom of choice; challenging Canadians to accept greater personal responsibility; and deepening Canada's practice of federal democracy."