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TORONTO (January, 1992) - Fp member William Trench has published his first book: Only You Can Save Canada - Restoring Freedom and Prosperity, and judging by initial reactions, it has all the makings of a Canadian best-seller. (For a preview of the book, click here.)
Only You Can Save Canada is a direct challenge to the prevailing intellectual environment in Canada, but it purposely avoids adopting an "intellectual" stance. Using plain common sense and down-to-earth everyday language, Trench's book cuts through Canada's "intellectual" political jargon with the ease of a hot knife cutting through soft butter.
"One of our problems is that for far too long we have not had a dialogue in Canada," observes Trench. "What we've had, and continue to have, is a socialistic monologue, led by the CBC and echoed by the bulk of the media. Canadians deserve options, they deserve a choice, they deserve to hear all sides before they are required to make up their minds. My book is intended to put forward some alternate ideas on how Canada can function, to show that prosperity is achieved not by oppressing the individual but by liberating him, not by government making our choices for us, but by government protecting our individual right to make our our own choices."
Needless to say, with a perspective like that, Only You Can Save Canada has Freedom Party's full endorsement. In fact, the book contains a 'Foreword' written by Fp leader Robert Metz who, after working with Trench during its initial drafts, believes that readers will come away from the book with a much deeper understanding of Fp's perspective and many of the principles underlying individual freedom itself.
"There's not a thing in this book that would contradict Freedom Party's principles or platform," says Metz. "If you want to get a pretty good understanding of what Freedom Party is for - or against - then Bill Trench's book is probably a very informative and entertaining way to do it."
While Fp holds a unique position as the only provincial organization listed under "Names and addresses of groups, organizations, and publications which favour more freedom and less government, and/or changes to current government policies" (whew!) at the back of Trench's book, there are many other organizations listed as worthy of investigation. Among them are the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (APEC), the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE), Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform (CFAR), the Fraser Institute, the Libertarian Party of Canada, the National Citizens' Coalition (NCC), the Northern Foundation, and the Reform Party of Canada.
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