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Dear Friends, The holidays are a time to pause, reflect, and, if we’re fortunate, find some inspiration for the year ahead. Each year, we ask our friends, diverse and interesting Canadian leaders, what they plan to read during their precious moments of relaxation. Collectively, the titles they’ve shared with us represent a delightful combination of intellect, creativity and a sheer love of reading. They might even inspire you and provide ideas for your own list of must-reads. I’m delighted to share with you the Public Policy Forum’s 2014 Holiday Reading List. A few new titles appear on more than one list, including many by Canadian authors like Us Conductors, the debut novel and Giller Prize winner by Sean Michaels and Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada’s Radical Makeover by investigative journalist, Michael Harris. The Innovators, a fascinating history of the collaborative geniuses behind the digital revolution, is the most popular choice, by biographer, Walter Isaacson. We’re pleased to announce a media partnership with the Ottawa Citizen this year, which will feature our sixth annual Holiday Reading List in the December 20th online edition of the newspaper. With all best wishes from the Public Policy Forum for a joyous holiday season,
David Mitchell President & CEO Public Policy Forum
2014 Holiday Reading List David Agnew, President, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology • Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freeman (2013) • No Great Mischief: A Novel by Alistair MacLeod (1999) Jordan Banks, Managing Director, Facebook Canada • The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku (2014) • Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin (2013) • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2014) Dominic Barton, Managing Director, McKinsey & Co • How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Stephen Johnson (2014) • The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2014) • Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China by Nicholas Lardy (2014)
Carolle Brabant, Executive Director, Telefilm Canada • Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (2007) • The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny (2014) Ian Brodie, Research Director, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary • Discovering Confederation: A Canadian’s Story by Janet Ajzenstat (2014) • Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War by Robert Gates (2014) Ian Capstick, Managing Partner, MediaStyle • Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America by Andrew Parnaby, Gregory S. Kealey, Reg Whitaker (2012) • The Orenda by Joseph Boyden (2013) Deepak Chopra, President and CEO, Canada Post • How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg (2014) Hon. Tony Clement, President, Treasury Board • The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Book Four: The Passage of Power by Robert Caro (2012) Mike Coates, President and CEO, Americas, Hill+Knowlton Strategies
• Leading Change: Overcoming the Ideology of Comfort and the Tyranny of Custom by James O’Toole (1995) • How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg (2014) Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, President and CEO, VIA Rail • The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki (2004) • The Best Laid Plans: A Novel by Terry Fallis (2008) • You are here: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (2013)
2014 Holiday Reading List Jim Dinning, Former Treasurer, Province of Alberta • Best Laid Plans: A Novel by Terry Fallis (2008)
Goldy Hyder, President and CEO, Canada, Hill+Knowlton Strategies
• The High Road: A Novel by Terry Fallis (2010)
• Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman (2012)
Christine Elliot, Progressive Conservative MPP, Whitby– Oshawa
Lisa Kimmel, General Manager, Edelman Toronto
• The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson (2013) Phil Fontaine, Special Advisor, RBC and President and Founder, Ishkonigan Consulting and Meditation • The Ripple Effect, the fate of freshwater in the 21st century by Alex Prud’Homme (2012) • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2014) • Adult Onset by Ann-Marie MacDonald (2014) Suzanne Labarge, Chancellor, McMaster University • When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence by Stephen D. King (2013) Kathryn McDade, Vice-President, Public Policy Forum
Suzanne Fortier, Principal, McGill University
• Nora Webster: A novel by Colm Tóibín (2014)
• Us Conductors: A novel by Sean Michaels (2014)
• J, by Howard Jacobson (2014)
• The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel Levitin (2014)
Rosemary McCarney, President and CEO, Plan Canada
Chrystia Freeland, Liberal MP, Toronto Centre • The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned-and Have Still to Learn-from the Financial Crisis by Martin Wolf (2014) • Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama (2014) Hon. Brian Gallant, Premier, Province of New Brunswick • Mémoires by Abdou Diouf (2015) • The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (2005) Peter Herrndorf, President and CEO, National Arts Centre • The Necessary War Volume One by Tim Cook (2014) • The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny (2014) • The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2014) • Punishment by Lynden McIntyre (2014)
• Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer (2011) • The Goldfinch: A Novel by Donna Tartt (2013)
2014 Holiday Reading List Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Party of Canada
Hon. Jim Prentice, Premier, Province of Alberta
• Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada’s Radical Makeover by Michael Harris (2014)
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson Book Two: Means of Ascent by Robert Caro (1990)
• Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong (2014)
• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2013)
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Punishment by Lynden McIntyre (2014)
Paul Moist, National President, Canadian Union of Public Employees • Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada’s Radical Makeover by Michael Harris (2014) • This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein (2014) • Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship by Adrienne Clarkson (2014) Marta Morgan, Associate Deputy Minister, Finance Canada • All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (2014) • You are here: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (2013) Patrick Pichette, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Google • To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation by Paul Farmer (2013) • Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris (2010)
• Black Skies: An Inspector Erlendur Novel by Arnaldur Indridason (2013) Alan Shepard, President and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University • Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen (2014) • The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was by Chantal Hébert (2014) • World Order by Henry Kissinger (2014) • Nora Webster: A novel by Colm Tóibín (2014) Kirstine Stewart, Vice-President, North American Media, Twitter • Not That Kind Of Girl: A young woman tells you what she’s learned by Lena Dunham (2014) • Dataclysm: Who We Are When We Think No One Is Looking by Christian Rudder (2014) • Us Conductors: A novel by Sean Michaels (2014) Dr. Gregory Taylor, Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa (2010) Justin Trudeau, Leader, Liberal Party of Canada • Family Portrait by Alain Dubuc (2014)
