Do Something 365 Ways You Can Strengthen Canada Preston Manning by Preston Manning 9781989555255, 198955525X instant download after payment.

“ Can we merge the politician and the citizen, into a single category: the politician-citizen or the citizen-politician? In other words, can we have a person who even when active, and a national leader in the political arena, retains the instincts and idealism of a citizen? That is my reckoning of Preston Manning. He was always tethered to fundamental ideas—ideas of our democracy, a bedrock notion of real citizenship—even as he exercised leadership in the House of Commons. Not incidentally, he was and is a high example of that “civility” so many now report as missing in Canadian politics.

In this new work Mr. Manning is back, or still at what he was always about. Going to the core of our system of government. Emphasizing citizen involvement. Reinforcing the need for thought in politics. He is also writing during a time in Canadian politics when disenchantment with how our system runs deep, and the engagement of citizens from politics is at a disastrously low ebb.

Do Something! is Manning’s imperative of a title. It signals his sense of urgency but the arguments and illustrations of what could and should be done are both practical and genuinely encouraging. He is a decent man with a fine mind and, oh Lord, how we need both.

—Rex Murphy, 2020”