The Public Management of Defence in Canada
Price: $60.00
The Canadian Forces are undergoing a dynamic change that is bringing both benefits and challenges. Conflict and international security today demands whole of government solutions and integration of defence with diplomats and development. The Public Management of Defence in Canada opens the “blackbox” of defence administration to the wider public service, NGOs and the academic community. This book is a timely and comprehensive contribution to the scholarship and interest developing in this field.
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Ton Hoppe: A Journey of Leadership
Price: $19.99
Tom Hoppe joined the Canadian Forces in 1982 and served with distinction during a career spanning 20 years. While serving in Bosnia in 1994, Tom Hoppe rescued three children who were being shot at by snipers. In recognition of his conspicuous leadership and bravery under fire, Tom was awarded with both the Meritorious Service Cross and the Medal of Bravery. As Canada’s most decorated soldier during one tour since the Korean War, Tom has been the subject of documentary films, featured in three books, listed in Canada’s “Who’s Who” and had a street named in his honour by the City of Calgary. Since retiring from the forces, Tom Hoppe completed a Master of Arts in Leadership and Training at Royal Roads University. In his first book, Tom shares with us, his “Journey of Leadership”. As Lloyd Robertson, Chief Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News says….
“A very personal story by a genuine Canadian hero. Simple yet compelling, Tom Hoppe’s experience in learning the ropes of leadership from the front lines to the front office, has an appeal to all who value honesty and integrity”.
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Dreamland: How Canada’s Pretend Foreign Policy Has Undermined Sovereignty
Short-listed for tne Donner Prize
Price: $19.99
Review from J.L. Granatstein, Fellow, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
“For too long, Canadians have seemed to prefer living in a cloud cuckoo land to hard realism. Not Roy Rempel. His book argues for the centrality of the United States to Canada and calls for Canadians to base their foreign and defence policies on a clear understanding on their national interests. Tough, hard-hitting, clear-headed, this is a book for our governments and our citizens to ponder.”
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Reinventing Canadian Defence Procurement: A View From Inside
by Alan S. Williams
Price: $19.99
Professor Ugurhan G. Berkok, The Royal Military College of Canada, writes…
“Alan William’s book is required in my Economics of Defence courses. The Fundamental reforms he proposes will not only restructure Canadian defence procurement but also, in one stroke, strengthen incentives for efficiency in the acquiring process.”
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Days of Reckoning
Edited by John Wood
ISBN 1-5502-418-3
Price: $19.99
In the mid-1990s, a team of recent university graduates set out on a cross-Canada journey to investigate why their generation had been handed a $580 billion invoice in the form of the national debt. As they chronicled the stories of more than two hundred people from diverse backgrounds, they began to realize that the national debt is a symptom of a much deeper ailment facing the nation.
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Guardians on Trial
Edited by Anthony Hall
ISBN 1-5502-419-1
Price: $19.99
Within this collection of conversations, politicians, public servants, academics, and business leaders discuss Ottawa’s economic mismanagement and the inevitable consequences.
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Taking or Making Wealth?
Edited by Anthony Hall
ISBN 1-5502-420-5
Price: $19.99
Canada’s regional diversity often is considered a source of complexity. In this collection of essays, one theme emerges: government programs designed to benefit regional economics produce the opposite effect with disastrous consequences.
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Goodbye Canada?
By Paul Kemp, edited by Criss Hajek ISBN 1-5502-421-3
Price: $19.99
The author interviews Canadians on both sides of the Canada/US border, analyzing how international trade agreements and the free movement of workers and capital are threatening Canada’s economic relevance on the world stage. As the Canadian government sits idly by, the question is posed – how can Canada reverse the trend?
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Down the Road Never Travelled
By Brigitte Pellerin
ISBN 1-5502-422-1
Price: $19.99
This is a story about how spending decisions are approved across three levels of government. How did politicians and bureaucrats administer the 1993 Canada Infrastructure Works Program? Is our system of government designed to prevent citizens from finding out why a municipality in Price Edward Island got bowling alleys instead of road repairs?
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On the Money Trail
Edited by Criss Hajek and Elizabeth LeReverend
ISBN 1-5502-424-8
Price: $19.99
It was supposed to be simple: find out who decides where taxpayers’ dollars get spent. A federal program designed to repair crumbling roads and fix leaking sewers seemed to be the perfect example for seven young researchers and journalists to investigate. But they faced bureaucratic hurdles as they sought answers to the simplest of questions. This book is a companion piece to Down the Road Never Travelled and Secrets in High Places.
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The Chatter Box
By Roy Rempel
ISBN 1-5502-425-6
Price: $19.99
Canada’s international influence is slipping and national sovereignty is eroding. Parliament is now the Prime Minister’s tool to legitimize policy – meaningful debate is ominously absent. This insider’s perspective presents Parliament as an irrelevant entity in the making of national policy, particularly during our involvement in such conflicts as Afghanistan and Kosovo.
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The Chance of War
Edited by John Wood
ISBN 1-5502-426-4
Price: $19.99
In the past ten years, thousands of Canadian “peacekeepers” have served in the former Yugoslavia. The soldiers who appear in this book all served from 1992-1995. The stories they tell about their training, their experiences overseas, and their homecoming, reveal that no matter how benign the government judges a situation to be when it deploys our troops, it is the soldiers who face the reality and the chance of war.
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Talking Heads Talking Arms
Edited by John Wood
The conversations in this three-volume set were recorded from 1994 to 2001 and address the relationship between the Canadian Armed Forces, the citizen, and the government in present-day Canada.
Volume I – No Life Jackets
ISBN 1-5502-427-2
Price: $19.99
In No Life Jackets, volume one of the trilogy, servicing or retired soldiers, sailors and airmen tell of their experiences in the service and offer opinions and explanations of the problems facing the military today.
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Volume II – Whistling Past the Graveyard
ISBN 1-5502-428-0
Price: $19.99
The conversations in Whistling Past the Graveyard deal mainly, but not exclusively, with our activities during the 1990s in Somalia and Rwanda.
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Volume III – Playing the Ostrich
ISBN 1-5502-429-9
Price: $19.99
Playing the Ostrich is a wide-ranging look at Canadian defence and foreign policy from the point of view of diplomats, soldiers, academics, and people within the political world in Ottawa and Washington.
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Reflections on Canadian Character
By Bob Couchman
ISBN 1-5502-430-2
Price: $19.99
Couchman’s life takes him from the back alleys of the inner city to a role of national service leadership. His observations offer a unique perspective on the rise and decline of Canada’s version of the welfare state. He probes behind the evolution of social policy and universal programs, which arose from a fundamental change in Canadian character.
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Just Trust Us
By Patrick Boyer
ISBN 1-5502-431-0
Price: $19.99
Since the late 1700s, “representative government” has been part of our Canadian birthright. Additionally, “responsible government” has been a constitutional foundation of our country since the 1800s. The spirit of both endure, but not their substance, is the thesis of Boyer’s book. The result? An absence of accountability in Canadian government.
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A Call to Account
Edited by Criss Hajek
ISBN 1-5502-432-9
Price: $19.99
Politicians, lobbyists, civil servants, historians, advisors and journalists explore the nature of governance in Canada from its noble history to its increasingly less accountable present state. While their philosophies may vary, all contributors are passionate in their discourse about Canadian government and Parliament. A Call to Account is a companion piece to Does Your Vote Count.
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Does Your Vote Count?
By Paul Kemp
ISBN 1-5502-433-7
Price: $19.99
Both scathing inquiry and sad tale, this book tells how Canada’s supposedly democratic system of representative government has slipped into a highly centralized decision-making operation. It is a case-by-case study of party politics, the decline of the MP’s role in Parliament, and the impact of the media. When it comes to federal budgets, new laws, or holding the government to account, can our parliamentary system truly represent the best interests of citizens?
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