In Review: Too Polite

Innovation, Science, Environment: Charting Sustainable Development in Canada, 1987-2007, Glen Toner and James Meadowcroft, eds. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009,
256 pages.

Twenty years ago, a confident nation strutted onto the global stage, ready to inspire a new era of sustainable development. But then Canada slipped into the gutter – muddling through at home, obstructing action abroad.