Will Canada lead the world in the transition to a more sustainable financial system?

A Matter of Confidence is a new book by two veteran B.C. legislature journalists, Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman. It begins with Gordon Campbell’s disastrous 2009 decision to bring in the Harmonized Sales Tax, which ultimately cost him his job, and ends with the 2017 swearing in of John Horgan as B.C.’s first BC NDP premier since 2001.

The Haíłzaqv (Heiltsuk) are marine people. Our oral history confirms our existence in our territory since time immemorial. Archaeological evidence corroborates that my people have continuously lived in relationship to our lands and waters for at least 14,000 years, over 700 generations.

Almost two-thirds of Canada’s 130 residential schools were run by the Catholic Church and many atrocities (physical, sexual, and psychological abuse perpetuated at the hands of nuns and priests and other religious staff members) were committed in the name of “beating the Indian” out of Indigenous children and aggressively converting them to Christianity.