Michael Harris, author of "Party of One" at K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre, Wolfville (October 10, 2015 3pm) | ValleyEvents.ca

Michael Harris, author of "Party of One"


Saturday October 10, 2015  3pm - 4:30pm (1 Hour 30 Minutes)
Conference / Tradeshow Lecture / Seminar Literary Community Event All Ages

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 902-542-9511

Join us at the KCIC auditorium to hear award-winning investigative journalist Michael Harris discussing his latest book "Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover".

In time for the federal election that promises to be a referendum on Stephen Harper‘s tenure, "Party of One" is a scathing look at the majority government of a prime minister determined to remake Canada.

In "Party of One", Michael Harris closely examines the majority government of a prime minister essentially unchecked by the opposition and empowered by the general election victory of May 2011. Harris looks at Stephen Harper’s policies, instincts, and the often breathtaking gap between his stated political principles and his practices.

He argues that Harper is more than a master of controlling information; he is a profoundly anti-democratic figure. In the F-35 debacle, the government’s sin wasn’t only in keeping the facts from Canadians, it was in inventing them. He illustrates how Harper has made war on every independent source of information in Canada since coming to power. Here is a man with a well-defined and growing list of enemies: union members, scientists, diplomats, environmentalists, First Nations peoples, and journalists.

With the Conservative majority in Parliament, the law is simple: What one man, the PM, says, goes.

Read more about Michael Harris and his outstanding career here:
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/12032/michael-harris
Admission
Pricing: Free
Poster
Acadia University
32 University Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

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