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Turning Points: The Campaigns That Changed Canada - 2011 and Before Kindle Edition

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The dramatic political events of 2011 -- the election of a Conservative majority government after seven years of minority rule -- have sent Canadian politics hurtling in a new and unpredictable direction. The drama of one of the most exciting elections in Canadian history is captured in this revised and updated edition of Turning Points: the Campaigns That Changed Canada. The new edition retains the original chapters that dissect the pivotal campaigns that have affected Canadians since Confederation, with a new first chapter on the May 2 federal election.

Author Ray Argyle, a veteran political analyst and social historian, analyzes the effects of the most recent election that has shifted the political landscape in Canada, producing a Conservative majority while reducing the once powerful Liberals to third party status. Examining the causes of the Liberal collapse, Argyle prescribes a future course for a party that he says has lost its sense of purpose after having completed the 20th century nation building of a new constitution, a charter of rights, and an affordable social welfare regime.

In its other 14 chapters, Turning Points reaches back to the beginning of Canada to tell the story of the election conspiracy that hatched Confederation. It describes how John A. Macdonald’s campaign for a “National Policy” rescued him from oblivion, and how Canada’s first French-speaking Prime Minister, Wilfrid Laurier, ushered Canada into the 20th century and then lost the country over free trade and the bloodletting of World War I.

Other notable campaigns include the election of North America’s first socialist government in Saskatchewan, the referendums that brought Newfoundland into Confederation, and the election of Pierre Trudeau of 1968 that led to a new Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Brian Mulroney’s battle over free trade in 1988 is described, along with the crucial 1995 referendum in which Quebec voted narrowly against separation from Canada.

This fascinating and factual account of Canada’s leaders and their struggles to win and hold power fills a wide gap in Canadians’ understanding of our history.