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"For anyone who loves Canada, hates Canada or is ambivalent about this whole vast land mass and its contrarian population of self-doubters, Intent for a Nation may be the most exciting book to appear in decades. Subtitled What is Canada For?...the book is an assemblage of new ideas and timeless values turned out in fresh new clothes." (Ottawa Citizen 20071008)
"Writers like Naomi Klein and this Michael Byers see Canada's glass as very much half full...We need Canadians like this speaking up or we'll expire as a country...I do urge Canadians to read Intent for a Nation. Wrap an arm around yourself and find your backbone. Speak up for Canada." (CBC Online 20070619)
"One of the most enlightening reads I've lately come across...Byers offers a consistently left-leaning perspective in a tremendously informative and thoughtful book." (Vancouver Sun 20070630)
"A passionate and cheerful call for international action, based on a diligent reading of our values and our potential." (Globe & Mail 20070609)
"[Byers]...makes his point well. Canada would have better served its interests, its values and the sum total of human happiness over the past six years if its leaders had more often found the guts to call the Bush administration out on its failures and excesses -- Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons and chartered CIA torture flights, many of which seem to have flown through our airspace and used our airports." (MacLean's Magazine )
"Writers like Naomi Klein and this Michael Byers see Canada's glass as very much half full...We need Canadians like this speaking up or we'll expire as a country...I do urge Canadians to read Intent for a Nation. Wrap an arm around yourself and find your backbone. Speak up for Canada." (CBC Online 20070619)
"One of the most enlightening reads I've lately come across...Byers offers a consistently left-leaning perspective in a tremendously informative and thoughtful book." (Vancouver Sun 20070630)
"A passionate and cheerful call for international action, based on a diligent reading of our values and our potential." (Globe & Mail 20070609)
"[Byers]...makes his point well. Canada would have better served its interests, its values and the sum total of human happiness over the past six years if its leaders had more often found the guts to call the Bush administration out on its failures and excesses -- Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons and chartered CIA torture flights, many of which seem to have flown through our airspace and used our airports." (MacLean's Magazine )
Lloyd Axworthy
"How refreshing to have a book on Canadian foreign policy argued from a progressive, constructive point of view"
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally, someone speaks out,
By Canadian enthusiast (Montreal, QC Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Intent For A Nation What Is Canada For (Hardcover)
I was looking for a book on Canada's involvement in the global scene and was drawn by the title of Byers' book. I was not disappointed in the least.
A must read for anyone frustrated at Canada's disappearing influence abroad and its passive aggressive stance vis-a-vis the international scene.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent source book on Canada,
By Samir Kassir "SAM Kassir" (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Intent For A Nation What Is Canada For (Hardcover)
This is an excellent souce book on Canada and its international standing and relations with the US. Professor Byers is meticulous in his analysis and thoughtful chapters that read like prose. he is well-balanced and very objective in telling the truth based on facts and strong source material. Far from "bashing" anything, Professor Byers is an educator first and is not motivated by an agenda like a lot of books that come on the market.
15 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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Typical Canadian content.,
This review is from: Intent For A Nation What Is Canada For (Hardcover)
I have a lot of problems with the assumptions Byers makes in this book - many lack factual support, some sound like pure opinion, and others are almost laughable. There is a lot of conservative bashing, leading me to believe that Byers isn't interested in simply properly informing his readers about the issues of Canada's role in the world, especially it's mission in Afghanistan.
He makes many suggestions as to how Canada should improve it's situation in relation to it's subservience to the USA but there are a lack of practical methods suggested to achieving them. He constantly mentions that Canada's role in Afghanistan is essentially useless and that we should be concentrating on Darfur because it would be a true humanitarian mission. He fails to realize that peacemaking missions in the 21st century are inherently different than those of the past. After all, how many African Union soldiers have been killed in Darfur so far? His section on racial profiling is just another example of an extremely PC outlook (Muslim extremists are generally Arab men - does it make me racist for admitting so?), as well, he makes some silly comment about it being "dangerous" to pigeonhole extremist media sources (the kind that broadcast videos on the internet of American soldiers getting blown up by IED's) as having a bad influence on up and coming terrorists. Pick just one book written by any Canadian author dealing with similar issues, they are essentially the same. The Bush-bashing (it's so easy) should be left to bloggers. Books like those by Byers are being put on reading lists by college professors, resulting in educations like mine being anything but fair and balanced. I believe Byers teaches at UBC - another left leaning, conservative bashing, anti-war professor (among the many). Whatever happened to presenting the bare facts and letting your students / readers come up with valid and informed opinions?
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