{"product_id":"planet-canada-isbn-9780345815804","title":"Planet Canada","description":"\u003cb\u003eA leading thinker on Canada's place in the world contends that our country's greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don't live here.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province's worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won't. But what they all share is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world sorely in need of them. And to act as ambassadors for Canada in industries and societies where diplomatic efforts find little traction. Surely a country with people as diverse as Canada's ought to plug itself into every corner of the globe. We don't, and sometimes not even when our expats are eager to help.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFailing to put this desire to work, contends bestselling author and longtime foreign correspondent John Stackhouse, is a grave error for a small country whose voice is getting lost behind developing nations of rapidly increasing influence. The soft power we once boasted is getting softer, but we have an unparalleled resource, if we choose to use it. To ensure Canada's place in the world, Stackhouse argues in \u003ci\u003ePlanet Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, we need this exceptional province of expats and their special claim on the twenty-first century.\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BUSINESS BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePlanet Canada\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ean enthralling guided tour\u003c\/b\u003e through the uncharted lands of Canada’s ‘undeclared eleventh province.’ This missing piece of our population has an outsized influence on the shape of the world and, potentially, the fate of our country—yet it was nameless and undocumented until John Stackhouse embarked on \u003cb\u003ethis extraordinary journey\u003c\/b\u003e through its workshops, concert halls, executive suites and laboratories, revealing a second Canada that is both a missed opportunity and a potential storehouse of future success.” —\u003cb\u003eDoug Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eArrival City\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaximum Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“John Stackhouse is \u003cb\u003ean eminently wise and thoughtful observer of Canada’s place on the world’s stage\u003c\/b\u003e. In \u003ci\u003ePlanet Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, he offers \u003cb\u003ea nuanced analysis of how the Canadian diaspora is capitalizing on their uniquely Canadian qualities\u003c\/b\u003e and makes a case for us, as an evolving middle-power nation, to make the most of them.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eThe Right Honourable David Johnston, Canada's 28th Governor General\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003ePlanet Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, John Stackhouse \u003cb\u003emotivates us\u003c\/b\u003e to rethink the axis of our globetrotting expats, and \u003cb\u003emakes a compelling case\u003c\/b\u003e for ensuring that the right structures are in place towards achieving the desired ‘boomerang effect,’ \u003cb\u003eultimately leveraging our diverse diaspora as a fundamental Canadian asset.” —\u003c\/b\u003eNurjehan Mawani, distinguished Canadian civil servant and diplomatJOHN STACKHOUSE is a nationally bestselling author and longtime foreign correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eReport on Business\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2009, he became the national newspaper's editor-in-chief, a position he held for five years. He is a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, and the author of books \u003ci\u003eOut of Poverty: And Into Something More Comfortable\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimbit Nation: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Canada\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMass Disruption:Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e. He presently serves as senior vice-president in the office of the CEO at Royal Bank Canada.","brand":"Random House Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304906215653,"sku":"NP9780345815804","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780345815804.jpg?v=1767734831","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/planet-canada-isbn-9780345815804","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}