In 1965, George Grant wrote Lament for a Nation describing how the country was becoming a vassal state to the Americans. Sixty years later Canada is being threatened by the US president for complete absorption into American empire. Last Call for Canada traces the common threads that link the two eras and then explores the profound differences in today's multipolar world where the US is a wounded giant and it is China and its BRICS+ partners that are in the ascendancy. McFarlane's insightful book looks at how well Canada-a country that for virtually its entire history has been the junior partner to the world's dominant power (first Britain then the US)-is equipped to deal with the American threat in the new multipolar world. He also answers the question: What can be done now?
PETER MCFARLANE is a Canadian author, journalist and editor. His published works include Northern Shadows: Canadians and Central America; From Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and Making of the Modern Indian Movement; and Ancient Land, Ancient Sky which he co-authored with Wayne Haimila. He has edited a number of award-winning books including Unsettling Canada, Reconciliation Manifesto, In the Black, Fight and Submit and Whose Land Is It Anyway? In 2024, he published Family Ties: How a Ukrainian Nazi and a living witness link Canada to Ukraine today." He served as Chair of the Writers Union of Canada in 1998-99 and he lives in the Laurentians north of Montreal.
"Canadians were shocked when it was revealed that a "Ukrainian nationalist" who was given a standing ovation by our entire Parliament in 2023 turned out to be . . . a member of the SS Division Galicia of the military wing of Hitler's Nazi Party, the Waffen-SS. Once you read Peter McFarlane's Family Ties, you won't be shocked at all." - Alvin Finkel, author of Humans: The 300,000 Year Struggle for Equality
"…dense and engrossing… Family Ties … packs a lot of information… but it flows smoothly and usually engages a reader." - Sheldon Kirshner, The Times of Israel
"Family Ties is a remarkable book on a period of history ― the Second World War, before and after ― that continues to haunt us. It is also a powerful antidote to Canadian amnesia and especially to the attempts to rewrite the history of that war to justify the warmongering provocations of Washington, Ottawa, London, Paris and other NATO countries." Counterpunch
"Brotherhood to Nationhood is more than just a biography of the life of George Manuel; it demonstrates the roots of an Indigenous internationalism and political theory that is grounded in the ethics, knowledge, and practices of the Secwepemc people." - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of As We Have Always Done
