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Something has changed in Canada.

Most Canadians can feel it, even if they struggle to put it into words. There’s a growing sense that the country doesn’t quite fit the way it used to. We argue more. We trust less. Politics increasingly feels like an endless cycle of accusation, reaction, and disappointment, while many of the country’s biggest challenges seem no closer to being solved.

Why?

The Canadianist Manifesto argues that we’ve been asking the wrong question.

Instead of treating Canada’s challenges as a series of unrelated problems, Christopher M. Michaud makes the case that they’re connected. Canada has changed dramatically over the past generation, but many of the systems that govern the country were built for a very different Canada. We haven’t simply made poor decisions. We’ve fallen out of alignment with ourselves.

This book is written for Canadians.

Canadians who have started to wonder whether we’ve been arguing about the wrong things all along. Those of us who have become discouraged by the electoral process because it feels as though governments change while the country’s biggest challenges remain. For Canadians who still believe this country has extraordinary potential but have begun to ask whether our politics are capable of getting us there.

Drawing on history, demographics, democratic reform, and thousands of conversations with everyday Canadians, Christopher M. Michaud offers a different way of looking at the country. Rather than asking who is to blame, he asks why the same frustrations continue to surface regardless of who forms government. From that question emerges a new framework for understanding Canada’s future, one built on modernization instead of perpetual political warfare.

You don’t have to agree with every conclusion.

But you may never look at Canada the same way again.

If you’ve ever had the feeling that something no longer fits but couldn’t quite explain why, this book may finally give a name to what you’ve been sensing all along.