Dismantling Canada Book Launch - Ottawa

Carisse Studio Café, 274 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K2P 1M2
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Please join us in celebrating the launch of

Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper's New Conservative Agenda
By Brooke Jeffrey

Brooke Jeffrey will be giving a talk on the major questions addressed in Dismantling Canada, namely: the ideological motivation for their actions, the tactics and strategy which allowed them to achieve a majority government, the rationale for their policy agenda, their long-term objectives, and, finally, the likelihood that the changes they have introduced will become permanent.

A Liberal insider analyzes Stephen Harper’s drive to create a new Conservative Canada.

Stephen Harper is the first prime minister to represent the new Conservative Party, and the first to declare that his goals include nothing less than changing Canada by entrenching conservative values and replacing the Liberals as the country’s natural governing party. After nine years of a closed-door governing style, his agenda is no longer hidden. 

As Brooke Jeffrey outlines in compelling detail in Dismantling Canada, Harper’s agenda is driven by a desire to impose order and tradition at home, and to take firm stands on emerging issues abroad. With only thirty-nine per cent of the popular vote in 2011, his government appears to have gone a surprisingly long way towards achieving those objectives, with little or no concerted public opposition. Illuminating the importance and influence of British and especially American right-wing conservatives on Harper’s strategies, the book explains how he has achieved so much through a combination of stealth, pragmatism, and ruthless determination. 

Providing fascinating insight into the origins of a new conservative vision for the economy, federalism, and domestic and foreign policies, Dismantling Canada explores Harper’s successes and failures, and evaluates the likely outcome of his long-term agenda to change Canada into a country most Canadians would not recognize.