{"product_id":"sir-johns-echo-the-voice-for-a-stronger-canada-paperback","title":"Sir John's Echo: The Voice for a Stronger Canada - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Boyko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hill Times: Best Books of 2017\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs Sir John A. Macdonald intended, the federal government must be recognized as the nation's voice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePower. It is the capacity to inspire while encouraging and enabling change, and it matters. When handled in a positive way, power is the key to the state's ability to strengthen the nation and improve lives. But state power, John Boyko argues forcefully, works best when concentrated on a federal level, as Sir John A. Macdonald and Canada's other founders intended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Provincial governments are essential, tending to local matters, administering and helping to fund national programs, and sometimes acting as incubators for ideas that grow to become national programs. But in fighting for scraps of power, premiers have often distracted from and occasionally hindered national progress. It is the federal government, as Boyko explains, that has been the primary force in nation building and emergency response, and is the only entity with the authority to speak for all Canadians. Canada has been at its best, and its strength will continue to grow, if we are true to Macdonald's vision, with the federal government speaking for us in one voice, a voice that will remain Sir John's echo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Boyko has written seven books including the bestselling \u003ci\u003eBlood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eCold Fire: Kennedy's Northern Front\u003c\/i\u003e. The \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e has deemed him, \"a distinguished scholar of Canadian political history.\" John lives in Lakefield, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732186591539,"sku":"9781459738157","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VGdBOW1VcmxLZC96RCt1b1Vjb1RWQT09.webp?v=1763881344","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sir-johns-echo-the-voice-for-a-stronger-canada-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}