{"id":364,"date":"2006-08-02T23:37:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2006-08-02T23:37:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T03:37:21","slug":"os-bookshelf-stephen-harper-and-the-future-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"OS Bookshelf &#8211; Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0771043503\/officiallyscr-20\/104-4079954-2515969?creative=327641&#038;camp=14573&#038;adid=0H2DG6Q5Z8X8N2SKYEP2&#038;link_code=as1\">Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada<\/a> by William Johnson and I must say it was quite enlightening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"81\" height=\"130\" align=\"right\" id=\"image363\" alt=\"Harper Book Image\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/harperbook.jpg\" \/>I was one of those right leaning Canadians who had misunderstood the politics around the formation of the Reform Party and the evolution to the Canadian Alliance.  I was also one of those right leaning Canadians who stuck with the PC Party thinking the glory would return.  I was also one of those right leaning Canadians who never paid very close attention to the nuances of Canadian politics.  (Remember my motto&#8230;You can pay attention or pay through the nose.  I would rather pay attention.)<\/p>\n<p>This book gave me quite an education and an even greater amount of respect for our Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>So I will say that this book is much less of a biography of Stephen Harper than it is a good recent history lesson on the political state of Canada.  I found it incredibly educational and at the same time realized that our current Prime Minister was quite a visionary.  And this isn&#8217;t just because a book says so.<\/p>\n<p>William Johnson does a wonderful job of explaining what was going on and quotes various statements made by Harper before his rise to power.  His predictions were right on the mark and the fact that the Liberal party implemented many ideas Harper had pushed for and claimed them as their own was a testament to his vision.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not read this book, it is a must read.  Not only for those who already see the light.  But moreso for those who believed the Liberals painting him as a big bad wolf.<\/p>\n<p>I give it a 9 out of 10.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Mini Screw\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/screwedbookscore.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada by William Johnson and I must say it was quite enlightening. I was one of those right leaning Canadians who had misunderstood the politics around the formation of the Reform Party and the evolution to the Canadian Alliance. I was also one of those right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os-bookshelf","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}