A Nation of Serfs: How Canada's Political Culture Corrupts Canadian Values [Paperback]

Reflect on this: You work hard; maybe you work two jobs. You do your best to pay the mortgage or the rent, not to mention other bills. You could use a few extra bucks for your kids' sports or education.

In short—you're responsible. Shouldn't the people in charge of governments and taxes be the same? Instead, a separatist sympathizer is chasen as Governor-Gerenal, political appointments expect entitlesments, and too many politicians elected in one party opportunistically jump ship to another. The same people pass laws to prevent citizens from speaking up—at election time! While this happens, the same political-bureaucratic-judicial axis can't get tough on crime.

A Nation of Serfs?: How Canada's Political culture Corrupts Canadian Values is a tart, opinionated call for Canadians to re-think their politics, their dependencies, and the mistaken belief that nothing ever changes. But it can. It starts with truth-telling. It starts with remembering our history. It starts with this book.

"Nothing like this book has ever appeared in Canada. My favourite chapter is the one devoted to exploring some of Canada's true roots as a principles of limited government as any in the world."

—Terence Corcoran, Editorial Page Editor, The Financial Post

"This book is a must-read. Mark Milke makes the moral case against dependency for its own sake. On the right, the fallacy of government subsidies to corporate Canada is exposed; so too is the culture of apathy, entitlement and opposition to sensible reform, which is relentlessly encouraged by the political left. A Nation of Serfs? will open the eyes of average Canadians; it will hand them the 'ammo' to confront many tax-happy politicians and the rainbow of special-interest groups that cheer them on."

—John Williamson. Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Mark Milke is a former director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, where he served as a spokesman first in Alberta and then in British Columbia. Educated a the University of Alberta, he is originally from Kelowna and has lived in the United States and Japan. A columnist and writer, his work on taxes, politics and government has appeared in newpapers such as The Vancouver Sun and National Post, and he is a regular contributor to the Calgary Herald. His first book on BC politics, Barbarians in the Garden City—The BC NDP in Power, was received with critical acclaim. He is an avid hiker and nature photographer.