Reviews

Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For? by Michael Byers

teghan's review

4.0

A book that analyses Canada's role in world politics. I found it very insync with my own political views (which is one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much). The author writes from an interesting perspective: a Canadian who moved to the United States to work and then returned more than 10 years later, willingly giving back his Green card. Its an optimistic book that says that Canada, being a middle power has a great amount of power in our hands that we havent even begun to tap into. He urges Canadians and government officials to take the lead of current world issues (Darfur, the environment, Iraq) and to become a world leader.

My only critique is that it gets bogged down in details and academic rhetoric in a few spots and I found my mind wondering.