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    The Canadian Manifesto

    By Conrad Black

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    “The bell of opportunity tolls for us, and the world, for once, will listen. It is our turn,” writes Conrad Black in this scintillating blueprint for a bolder Canadian future.


    "Black’s Manifesto reminds us who we were and, therefore, who we are. In doing so, he lays the groundwork for us to consider who we might yet become."
    – Jordan Peterson, University of Toronto, Author of 12 Rules for Life


    Chipper, patient, and courteous, Canada has pursued an improbable destiny as a splendid nation of relatively good and ably self-governing people, but most would agree we have not realized our true potential.


    Canada's main chance, writes Black, is now before it...and it is not in the usual realms of military or economic dominance. With the rest of the West engaged in a sterile left-right tug of war, Canada has the opportunity to lead the world to its next stage of development in the arts of government. By transforming itself into a controlled and sensible public policy laboratory, it can forge new solutions to the problems of welfare, education, health care, foreign policy, and other governmental sectors, and make an enormous contribution to the welfare of mankind.


    Canada has no excuse not to lead in this field, argues Black, who offers nineteen visionary policy proposals of his own. He claims that this "is the destiny, and the vocation, Canada could have, not in the next century, but in the next five years of imaginative government.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Sutherland House Inc.
    Release dateMay 1, 2019
    ISBN9781999439590
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    The Canadian Manifesto
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    Conrad Black

    Conrad Black is a former newspaper publisher whose company Hollinger International published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), and The National Post (Canada). He is the author of several acclaimed works including his autobiography, A Life in Progress, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom, and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full. Black was born in Montreal and is now a British citizen.

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    • 3/5
      This work is full of the flamboyance and hubris you would expect from Black. In places, huge jumps in logic are employed with key ideas built upon strident claims that are unsupported by any detail in the book. The reader is expected to accept them at face value. For the faithful who do, they are rewarded with concise and relatively convincing argument. Even if you think the claims are erroneous, most will still be glad he didn't go into the details. The relatively short manifesto presented could easily go to 1000 pages given Blacks' gift for gratuitous gab.

      However, agree or disagree with Black, the book laid out well and easily digested. The surprise is that some (but not all) of the ideas presented are refreshingly plausible and worth considering by higher-ups that create the policy we all have to live by. Sometimes an outside voice gives sorely needed perspective.

      What is also striking here is Black's unabashed celebration of all things Canadian which evidently still includes him in his mind. Considering he traded his citizenship for British title years ago and remains a temporary resident, this work comes off as almost wistful thinking. Maybe there is some regret that he is not actually Canadian and this "manifesto" is a step towards proving how Canadian he is.

      There are flaws here as noted but for proud Canadians the book is still worth the read for the challenging ideas forwarded and the sheer spectacle of all things Black.