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BACK IN PRINT! In 1990 William Gairdner published The Trouble with Canada and it sparked a conservative renewal and inspired a generation. In 1910 he completely this update, The Trouble with Canada ... Still! Gairdner rejoins the battle, showing that Canada suffered a disturbing regime change in the last quarter of the twentieth century and is now caught between two irreconcilable styles of government: top-down collectivism and bottom-up individualism. The result is a regime besotted with high taxation and big government, a welfare culture that rewards laziness, and a hug-a-thug mentality that betrays justice. In The Trouble with Canada ... Still! Gairdner puts familiar topics under a searing new light, and recent issues, such as immigration, diversity, and corruption of the law are confronted head on, yielding many startling -- and sure to be controversial -- conclusions. This book is a bold clarion call to arms for Canada to examine and renew itself before it is too late. Reviews ""... a provocative and stimulating work of advocacy, as well as a rigorous factual summary of the consequences of Canada's profound move to the left of the past half century ... no one concerned with Canadian public policy should be without this unique, now almost institutional, work. Even those who disagree with aspects of it will find its assemblage of little-publicized facts and array of options and prospects indispensable to the national political debate under way."" -- Conrad Black

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"""... an eloquent plea for liberty and independence by a ... critic who combines singing prose with a gimlet eye."" -- Roger Kimball, editor, The New Criterion ""Gairdner sees bright and clear what Canada so greatly needs, and his mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for a national-binational-celebration."" -- William F. Buckley, Jr. (commenting on the original edition) ""The Trouble with Canada opened my eyes to the decline of liberty in Canada. Now, Gairdner speaks to a new generation with a thoroughly updated version of that classic book. The struggle for freedom is never over. "" -- Tom Flanagan, professor of political science at the University of Calgary"

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As a young athlete, Bill competed in the decathlon at the Pan-Am Games in Brazil and at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, and then in two Commonwealth Games (Jamaica, 1966, and Edinburgh, 1970), in the 400 metre hurdles event. After earning a PhD from Stanford University, he taught English Literature at York University, then pursued a career in business, from which he retired in 1988 to devote his time to writing. In quick succession he produced a string of bestselling books, including The Trouble With Canada, The War Against The Family, The Book of Absolutes, and Canada's Founding Debates -- an historical landmark, DISRUPTIVE ESSAYS: There Are No Safe Spaces in This Book!, His most recent book is The French Traveler: Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada. Blog: www.williamgairdner.ca Twitter: @williamgairdner

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