One hundred years ago a great Canadian, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What happened? Canada lost sight of Laurier's plan and failed to claim its century, dwelling instead in the long shadow of the United States. <br><br>No more! Co-authors Brian Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis envision Canada's emergence as an economic and social power. They argue, while the United States was busy precipitating a global economic disaster, Canada was on a path that could lead it into an era of unprecedented prosperity. It won't be easy. We must be prepared to follow through on reforms enacted and complete the work already begun. If so, Canada will become the country that Laurier foretold, a land of work for all who want it, of opportunity, investment, innovation and prosperity. Laurier said that the twentieth century belonged to Canada. He was absolutely right; he was merely off by 100 years.
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Brian Lee Crowley. The Canadian Century
preface
foreword
part I: How to Have Your Very Own Century
chapter one. LAURIER’S PLAN FOR CANADA
chapter two. A COUNTRY AND A CENTURY DERAILED
part II: Only in Canada, You Say? We Show the World How to Reform
chapter three. FROM BASKET CASE TO WORLD BEATER: CANADA SHOWS THE WAY
chapter five. REFORMING CANADA’S ENTITLEMENTS— GLASS TWO-THIRDS FULL
part III: America Loses the Script
chapter six. WHERE’D YOU GET THAT SUIT? U.S. BUCKLES ON FISCAL STRAITJACKET
chapter seven. ARE AMERICANS ENTITLED TO THEIR ENTITLEMENTS? SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
chapter eight. NOT WHAT THE FOUNDERS HAD IN MIND: REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION
part IV: The Future Belongs to Canada . . . If We Want It
chapter nine. LAURIER’S UNFINISHED SYMPHONY
notes
bibliography
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This book would not exist without two organizations. Appropriately, one is American and the other Canadian.
The first is Liberty Fund, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana. Liberty Fund is a foundation dedicated to ensuring that the intellectual case for human freedom is examined and understood around the world. The three authors of this book had the enormous good fortune to be participants in a Liberty Fund colloquium on Liberty and Public Choice that took place in Ottawa, Ontario, in March 2009.
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What happened? How was such a promising start to what was to be Canada’s century steered so quickly into the ditch?
In fact, the prosperity largely continued under Laurier’s successor, Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden,1 who, with the exception of reciprocity with the Americans, largely pursued Laurier’s economic policies. The rapid growth in population, for example, continued right up until 1921, at which time 8.8 million people lived in the Dominion.2 Under the later leadership of Laurier’s handpicked successor as leader of the Liberal Party, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada continued to enjoy good levels of prosperity through much of the twenties, even if the frenetic effervescence of the Laurier years had gone.
