I made of list of books authored or co-authored by the federal party leaders (excluding party platforms) to get a better sense of what each person cares about (ordered alphabetically by author, then chronologically).
Duceppe, Gilles, 1947-
- Question d’identité (2000).
Harper, Stephen, 1959-
No publications found. Harper is currently writing a book about the early history of Canadian hockey.
Ignatieff, Michael
- True patriot love : four generations in search of Canada (2009)
- The rights revolution (2007)
- The lesser evil : political ethics in an age of terror (2004)
- Charlie Johnson in the flames (2003)
- Empire lite : nation-building in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan (2003)
- Human rights as politics and idolatry (2001)
- The rights revolution (2000), translated into French as La révolution des droits (2001)
- Virtual war : Kosovo and beyond (2000)
- Berlin in autumn : the philosopher in old age (1999)
- Isaiah Berlin : a life (1998)
- The warrior’s honor : ethnic war and the modern conscience (1998), translated into French as L’honneur du guerrier : guerre ethnique et conscience moderne (2000)
- The needs of strangers (1984, 2001)
Layton, Jack, 1950-
- Homelessness : the making and unmaking of Canada’s housing crisis (2000), republished as Homelessness : how to end the national crisis (2008)
- Speaking out : ideas that work for Canadians (2004, 2006)
May, Elizabeth
- Global warming for dummies (2009)
- Losing confidence : power, politics, and the crisis in Canadian democracy (2009)
- How to save the world in your spare time (2006)
- The Great Lakes primer : a citizen’s primer to protect the Great Lakes and the St-Lawrence River (2005)
- Frederick Street : living and dying on Canada’s Love Canal (2000)
- At the cutting edge : the crisis in Canada’s forests (1998, 2005)
- Claiming the future : the inspiring lives of twelve Canadian women scientists and scholars / prepared by Elizabeth May for the Committee for Advancement of Women in Scholarship of the Royal Society of Canada (1991)
- Paradise won : the struggle for South Moresby (1990)
- Budworm battles: the fight to stop the aerial insecticide spraying of the forests of eastern Canada (1982)
Aaaaahahahaha! Mr. Harper will no doubt have a trove of wisdom to convey on the subject of our nation’s great sport.
Maybe so. Hockey is clearly a social issue we will all wish we’d spent more time debating come May 3rd :S
I hope you are living safely in a blaze-orange zone?
I live in the only orange zone in my province! Woot!
I suspected you might be on that orange island!! I’m in a fragile little red puddle, like a wee stray drop of Torontonian blood.
Wait, Mr. Harper’s hockey book may be deeper than we think. Apparently, he uses hockey philosophy for filling his Cabinet:
Is promoting quitters and losers a hockey thing, too? Somehow I think not.