Emmett Hall: Establishment radical

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Gruending, Dennis

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Macmillan of Canada

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 A collection of the most powerful and moving oratory that Canada has to offer. 
 Throughout history, men and women of great eloquence have persuaded their contemporaries to build nations, to make war and create peace, to sway judges and juries, to celebrate the accomplishments of the living, and to mourn for the dead. 
 Canada has had more than its share of great orators, individuals who have used their rhetorical powers to explore important issues faced by our nation: Confederation, relations between peoples, human rights, the economy, culture, our international relationships, particularly with the United States, but also our role in the larger and developing world. 
 Great Canadian Speeches is a thought-provoking collection of the finest speeches in Canadian history, among them: 
<ul>Sir John A. MacDonald making a case for Confederation, while silver-tongued Joseph Howe argues against it; Louis Riel pleading his case to a Regina jury in 1885; Nellie McClung demanding the vote for women; Dr. Norman Bethune urging Canadians to support the Republican cause in Spain; Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque facing off in the 1980 Quebec referendum; Thomas Homer-Dixon pondering Canada's future in an increasingly unstable world; David Suzuki addressing environmental challenges; Jean Chretien on the Trade Tower bombing; Justin Trudeau's "Je t'aime papa"; Stephen Lewis' talk on AIDS and the west; and many more. </ul>
 Great Canadian Speeches is an eminently readable, thought-provoking oratory.

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In his 86 years Emmett Hall has played a vital role - as a Supreme Court judge, royal commissioner, and elder statesman - in the transformation of Canada from a frontier society to a modern welfare state. He is known as the father of medicare. It was his Supreme Court judgment in 1975 that set the stage for negotiations on Indian land claims. His 1977 commission investigated the sensitive issue of rail transportation and small-town survival in western Canada. And he was the co-chairman of the 1968 Hall-Dennis report on education in Ontario. Emmett Hall: Establishment Radical tells the story of the poor boy from Saskatchewan who made it to law school and graduated with John Diefenbaker in 1919. It contains fascinating material on many of Hall's legal cases, including his 1936 defence of the people brought to trial for the Regina Riot and his judgment on the Supreme Court appeal of Steven Truscott's murder conviction. Dennis Gruending not only brings to light the events of Emmett Hall's legal life, but probes behind these events for motivations and clues to the man's character and actions. This is a book about a populist judge turned elder statesman, a sometimes fond, sometimes cantankerous, patriarch who is widely admired but little known. Hall's incredible industry and his longevity, from the Prairies in frontier days to the present, provide the book with an immediate intensity and a rare historical sweep.

Emmett Hall: Establishment Radical

Leaders & Notable People

Fitzhenry and Whiteside

In this new book, former MP Dennis Gruending focuses on speeches by 11 of Canada's finest political orators. This book will be a welcome companion to anyone interested in Canadian history, politics, literature and rhetoric. It will also be a useful source and guide for those who write speeches or deliver them. Gruending deals with one speech in each of the 11 chapters: 
<ul>
<li>Describing in detail the rich historical context in which each speech was delivered; </li>
<li>Paying close attention to both the content of each speech and rhetorical techniques employed by the orators; and</li>
<li>Examining the speech's immediate and long term impact upon Canada and Canadians.</li>
</ul>The book begins with John A Macdonald's arguing on behalf of Confederation in 1865 and ends with chief Joseph Gosnell's powerful address in support of the Nisga'a treaty in 1998. The book also contains: Louis Riel's speech to the jury; Wilfrid Laurier's warning the Catholic clergy to stay out of politics; Nellie McClung's demand that women receive the vote; Agnes Macphail's call for both political reforms and the full equality of women; Arthur Meighen's divisive speech on military conscription; Richard Bennett's attempt to give Canada a New Deal during the Depression; Tommy Douglas introducing Medicare; Lester Pearson's epic debates with John Diefenbaker over a new flag for Canada, and Pierre Trudeau's "No" to sovereignty association in the 1980 Quebec referendum.

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