Will This Be Canada's Century?
Language: English
Published by Rock's Mills Press, 2017
- Softcover
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- Title
- Will This Be Canada's Century?
- Author
- D Paul Schafer
- Publisher
- Rock's Mills Press
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- As New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1772440884
- ISBN 13
- 9781772440881
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In this thought-provoking book, D. Paul Schafer makes the case that Canada possesses the potential to play a crucial role in the world. After taking stock of the country’s history, geography, and two of its greatest assets–creativity and diversity–he sets his sights on the rapidly-changing global and Canadian landscape. Schafer contends that by applying a cultural and chronological approach to Canadian development and focusing attention on the public sector and the responsibilities of governments and especially the federal government, it will be possible to achieve sustainable development, improve the well-being of Canadians and people in other parts of the world, and realize Wilfrid Laurier’s famous prediction that a century will “belong to Canada”—albeit the twenty-first century rather than the twentieth. Schafer ends the book with a rallying cry for all Canadians—“It’s time to lead!”
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"Paul Schafer’s new book explores the rapidly evolving sense of confidence in the future of Canada. It is based on the belief that even though Canada is not generally considered as a ‘major power’, its unique history of overcoming the hardships of climate, vast geography, accommodating linguistic and cultural diversity, as well as encouraging creativity, has given it the advantage of being equipped to point the way towards a new course for humanity. Over 150 years of struggle and compromise, Canadians have managed to create a strong, independent and sovereign country with a high standard of living, broadly-based educational opportunities and better than average health and longevity. The result, as the author points out, is a quiet sense of optimism that has been nurtured by the many accomplishments achieved by Canada’s artists, writers, scientists, athletes and by remarkable Canadians from so many different backgrounds, who have worked together to build a better country. This book provides many examples of how this highly diverse population has seized opportunities, reached reasonable accommodation on many issues, and is gaining the respect of many countries for its growing influence. A must-read for Canadians of all ages, and an uplifting book that they should encourage their friends around the world to read in order to become aware of the ‘New Canada’ and its potential." —John Hobday, former director, Canada Council for the Arts
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