I tumbled on this book by clicking on one of Amazon's book recommendations. I read the "product description" and the "about the author" blurb and made up my mind about buying this book based on the foregoing and a combination of recency of the publication and price.
The intro talks about who compose the mighty 9 and what gives them the right to do what they do. The book informs of the fact that section 40 of the Supreme Court Act, in layman's terms, allows the SCC to hear cases that they believe are of public importance. So this would be the little guy's channel to communicate, but as we learn from the stats presented in this book the ratio to leave granted to leave requested (I… Read more
I picked up this book, because I have read both of Nicolas' previous books and I found the concepts he discussed, to use his word, were robust. I won't go into details about the Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness as whoever is reading this review is likely familiar with at least one of them. So, about this book now. There is a worthy number of one-liners that can prompt one to say "yeah, it's crossed my mind, that makes sense, if someone of Nicolas' calibre has perceived it similarly it could be a good candidate for a pattern" amidst a litany of banal rants, paraphrases of opinion leaders' statements, and borrowed enunciations Indian spiritual gurus in the 80s and 90s made. Let me… Read more
First of all, I'd like to say that there are well-discussed ideas and facts in this book such the economic development strategies advocated by the government and the aboriginal people, the issue of determination of need in CED, the aboriginal concept of enoughness, why aboriginal businesses fail and how agencies contribute, etc. I read the book, because I work in CED in the actual north of Canada and thought it would allow me to do my job better, BUT:
Readers should be cautioned that the book contains essays and not well- researched text as the product description gives impression to. Even the author confesses to this by starting the introduction with "[t]he essays in this… Read more
