Our speaker was Jonathan Manthorpe on Wed 21 May 2025 addressing RUSI VI on the subject of his latest book, “On Canadian Democracy.” Jonathan is the author of the national bestseller and Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of 2019, Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada. His other books include On Canadian Democracy, Restoring Democracy in an age of Populists and Pestilence, Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan and The Power, and the Tories: Ontario Politics 1943 to the Present. Over his fifty-year career as a journalist, he has been the foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, and Europe for Southam News, the European Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, and the national reporter for The Globe and Mail. In 1981 and 1982, he was an advisor in London to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau on the patriation of the Canadian constitution. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia and is a member of the Canadian International Council.
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