There is only one word to describe Party Of One, award-winning journalist Michael Harris’ massive and powerfully written biography of Canada’s 22nd prime minister.
Shocking.
In the space of less than a decade, Canada has been transformed from a parliamentary democracy where the government of the day answers to the people through their elected representatives in parliament to a northern banana republic where parliament is daily frogmarched to the drum beat of Just One Man.
The book’s most trenchant quotes come from two former officers of parliament.
In incisive and frank analyses in separate interviews with the author, Canada’s former commissioner of information, Robert Marleau, and former Commons speaker, Peter Milliken, have sounded the alarm to Canadians that their democracy is under full-scale attack.
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