Product Description: How did a diverse, progressive country like Canada end up with a far-right, ultra-conservative prime minister who, to quote the author, “has launched an all-out assault on our democracy and who is—as quickly as possible—dismantling many things that we, Canadians, hold dear?”Point by point, best-selling political writer and Canadian nationalist Mel Hurtig names Stephen Harper’s offenses: his war on the environment and on science; his use of the Canada Revenue Agency to disrupt and control the work of Canadian charities, especially those working on issues like climate change, poverty and human rights; how policies that affect the distribution of income and wealth are unfair, unequal, unjust, undemocratic; and how Canada’s dysfunctional Electoral system got the country in this mess...read more

Product Description: For more than four decades, Canadian nationalist, publisher and best-selling author, Mel Hurtig, has been warning Canadians about the negative influences of the excessive corporate takeover of Canada, including the impacts of foreign ownership and so-called free-trade agreements...read more

Product Description: Renowned as a passionate Canadian, bestselling author Mel Hurtig has combed through world statistics to see how Canada really measures up — and the results are astonishing, and often shocking.This book is about how Canada has changed, very much for the worse, in the last twenty years...read more

Product Description: Canadian nationalist Mel Hurtig exposes Paul Martin’s secret commitment to George W. Bush’s weaponizing of space.Mel Hurtig has five best-sellers to his credit but this is easily his most important book. Readers will be shocked to learn how both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to weaponize space; about the huge new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile buildup resulting from U...read more

Product Description: Canadian politicians have, from time to time, proclaimed a war against poverty. What they are really prosecuting, however, is a war against the poor. Unemployment benefits are routinely denied to people who, over the course of a lifetime, have contributed a portion of their earnings to UI (now called EI)...read more

Product Description: Book by Hurtig, Mel