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Praise for Uprising

“Is this [narrative] alarmist? Is Bland creating an exaggerated image of reality to stimulate needless panic? Or is he trying to educate his literate fellow citizens? Readers can decide. For my money he deserves a Giller Prize.”

— C2cjournal.ca

“...the fictional conditions underlying the uprising in the book so mirror the reality of modern Canada.”

— National Post

“Hard-hitting and regrettably all too believable.”

— Jack Granatstein, award-winning military historian, author of Who Killed Canada’s Military?

“Something that looks very much like a powder keg is sitting in our midst. But a native insurrection is virtually a taboo subject. Politicians, the media and the general public tacitly agree to ignore it … [and] Bland is convinced that a native uprising is inevitable if its feasibility is not reduced.”

— Huffington Post Canada

“In Uprising, Douglas Bland delivers a political thriller that at times seems frighteningly real. This is a story of failed political leadership, overstretched military forces and a national crisis that had repercussions far beyond the borders of Canada.”

— Sevenyearproject.com

“‘Combat-arms’ veteran, counter-insurgency expert, counsellor to governments, and leading military scholar-now, Colonel Bland emerges in Uprising as a master thriller-writer who wrenches Canadians from a stale-dated dream world, and answers the inescapable question: what happens in dangerous times when a passive population, narcissistic politicos and uncertain bureaucrats determine the nation’s fate? A scintillating read and devastating warning.”

— David Harris, director, International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc.; former chief of Strategic Planning, Canadian Security Intelligence Service

“Dr. Bland skilfully uses the format of a novel to examine Aboriginal and domestic security issues.… Uprising is neither a conspiracy tale nor a slippery slope argument. It is the canary in the mineshaft. With a frustrated, young Aboriginal population with limited chances relative to the broader Canadian population, with current means of addressing historical and current grievances wanting, and with limited Canadian capacity to ensure domestic security, it simply would not take that much to ignite a stronger opposition to the state and its mechanisms. The domestic security situation is more fragile and our means more limited to address threats than Canadians would like to think, and hoping for the best is not enough.”

— On Task Journal