Uneasy Neighbors: Canada, the USA and the Dynamics of State, Industry and Culture

by David T. Jones and David Kilgour

ONE OF THE TRUISMS OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY IS THAT "to govern is to choose." Regardless of how rich our nations have become, we can't have everything-either as individuals or as societies. But we still do not know what we cannot have. Desires are infinite; resources are finite. Is it impossible, for example, to have the best, most technologically advanced health care rapidly available to all citizens without bankrupting the average taxpayer? Is it possible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470153067
• ISBN13: 9780470153062
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Canada Revealed

Canada is the great unknown of world traveling Americans. This book seeks to remedy our collective gap not by retelling North American history, but by revealing Canada Now in the form of a dialogue between a knoweldeable American and knowledgeable Canadian. A common border and language (for 80% of Canadians) have evolved into uncommon views on many subjects. Know your neighbors with or without that uncommon u.