What's Happened to Politics? - Softcover

Rae, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501103423 ISBN 13: 9781501103421

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2016

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"This is an excellent book. It's solidly rooted in experience... but very much focused on the future. It's a highly personal political-intellectual memoir, but one that's not at all self-indulgent. "--Roland Paris, Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies

"In What's Happened to Politics?, Rae raises a key question that all Canadians need to contemplate. Part history, part memoir, and part manifesto, it is important for anyone who cares about Canada and how it's governed."--Alison Loat, co-founder of Samara Canada

"What's Happened to Politics? aspires to open a conversation with Canadians on the state of our politics and government. It is a call to action to change the focus from rhetoric and spin to political decision-making based on shared values, ideas, and character. This book also focuses on the urgent need to reconcile the relationship between Aboriginal people and other Canadians and underscores the historic imbalance in the relationship, how it came about, and the way forward in terms that all Canadians can understand."--Phil Fontaine, President, Ishkonigan Consulting and Mediation Inc. & three-time National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations

"[A] useful and important new book...it demonstrates [Rae's] deep knowledge of the major public-policy challenges of our time and a coherent philosophical approach."--Globe and Mail

About the Author

Bob Rae was elected eleven times to the House of Commons and the Ontario legislature between 1978 and 2013. He was Ontario's 21st Premier from 1990 to 1995, and served as interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. He is working now as a lawyer, negotiator, mediator, and arbitrator, with a particular focus on first nations, aboriginal, and governance issues. He also teaches at the University of Toronto School of Governance and Public Policy, and is a widely respected writer and commentator.

An author of four books and many studies and reports, Bob Rae is a Privy Councillor, an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario, and has numerous awards and honorary degrees from institutions in Canada and around the world. Bob is married to Arlene Perly Rae, a writer and speaker, and they have three children. They live in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1501103423
• ISBN 13: 9781501103421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192