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Fix Canada
Toward a better, liberal-free Canada!
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First published January 1, 2006
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July 19, 2022
I typically only write positive reviews. I believe in building a better world, and that words are a powerful thing.
The author of this book dropped a copy off at our business and offended a few of our staff in the few minutes he spent at our counter. I was intrigued at the hubris it takes for an author to walk around dropping of his own book to promote it - if anything it shows faith in ones self, and commitment and I gave this book its fair shake.
In short, the book is homophobic, narrow minded, short sighted, one sided, crass and embarrassingly unoriginal. All this wrapped in a classic con artist trick - to take a few original, eye opening and appealing facts, and tie them to a logically flawed argument to help prop up an ill conceived set of ideas. His ignorance of the world and life beyond his own experience is appalling.
At the end of the book he encourages people to get up and take a stand - so here I am taking a stand for the Canada I believe in. One where books like this are shunned - not because I don't agree - but because it's rooted in hate, ignorance and intolerance.
And before I'm called a "Lieberal" as he so unoriginally steals in these pages, I would note that I'm a conservative Christian Canadian living in Western Canada. Its time conservatives realize that morality is not only a left wing view but rather a Canadian one and we need to move on from fighting these types of battles and move one to more modern era problems that can define our country in the future!
The author of this book dropped a copy off at our business and offended a few of our staff in the few minutes he spent at our counter. I was intrigued at the hubris it takes for an author to walk around dropping of his own book to promote it - if anything it shows faith in ones self, and commitment and I gave this book its fair shake.
In short, the book is homophobic, narrow minded, short sighted, one sided, crass and embarrassingly unoriginal. All this wrapped in a classic con artist trick - to take a few original, eye opening and appealing facts, and tie them to a logically flawed argument to help prop up an ill conceived set of ideas. His ignorance of the world and life beyond his own experience is appalling.
At the end of the book he encourages people to get up and take a stand - so here I am taking a stand for the Canada I believe in. One where books like this are shunned - not because I don't agree - but because it's rooted in hate, ignorance and intolerance.
And before I'm called a "Lieberal" as he so unoriginally steals in these pages, I would note that I'm a conservative Christian Canadian living in Western Canada. Its time conservatives realize that morality is not only a left wing view but rather a Canadian one and we need to move on from fighting these types of battles and move one to more modern era problems that can define our country in the future!
July 16, 2022
I don't like saying things like this, as I consider personal insult to be a bit of a cop out when it comes to criticism, but I cannot hold this in: this guy is a dense motherfucker. He came to my work hocking his wares and was so pushy and forward about his backwater intolerant selfish mean-spirited views that I felt a little ill just listening to him. This book is apparently "non-political". You can decide for yourself, but I think that's bullshit.
May 22, 2023
In his conclusion to this collection of prairie back-water editorials, Jeff Willerton actually suggests that his musings might be comparable to the works of Adam Smith, Abraham Lincoln, and William Wilburforce, in that they all plugged gamely away at the forces which were lined up against them and yet somehow managed to change the world. That suggests either incredible optimism or arrant hubris. Either way, the man doesn't seem to be reliably on the stable ground of rationality, and he isn't completely in control of the ideas he is peddling (literally peddling: he sells this book door to door), as is indicated, perhaps, by his misspelling of his own hero's name: it's Wilberforce, Mr. Willerton, and should not be confused with the heroic pig from Charlotte's Web.
Although I find many of his ideas undermined by his own single-minded convictions, some of which I'll get to in a moment, it is somewhat entertaining to get into the head of a man who speaks so volubly and passionately from the right wing of the political spectrum. At the very least, one has to admire a man who is so vigorously defending his own values, values which he believes are under constant, insidious, pernicious attack by anyone to his political left, including such offenders as Ralph Klein. I'm not making that up. Only stalwarts like Brad Wall and Connie Osterman merit his approval, if for no other reason than they have rejected Gay-Straight Alliances in high schools.
Willerton encourages his audience to do more of what they're doing--reading, that is--because it is certain that one's life can be changed by meeting people and reading books. But then he immediately takes that back by dissuading anyone from dipping into the wrong kinds of books, like those penned by Naomi Klein or any left-wing rabble-rousers of her ilk. What he admits to here is that he is a polemicist: a supporter of only one side of any argument because he just couldn't be bothered to investigate what the other side is saying because it's so clearly not worth consideration. Thus he dismisses the Left's take on global warming, public schooling, gun control, and a raft of other issues that absolutely need to be discussed from as many points of view as possible. That makes him less than entertaining.
When he says that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice and that the Communists are responsible for encouraging experimentation in becoming gay through GSAs and public school curricula, all of which is going to lead to the extirpation of Western civilization (just like it did in Rome), he sounds as off-base and looneybird nuts as he gets. Unfortunately, he claims that he is constantly running into people who wholeheartedly agree with him and that they are the majority of common sense intelligent folks in Canada. Although I don't have a great deal of faith in the common sense and intelligence of the average person, even I have to question that claim.
But he isn't completely out to lunch. I respect his ability to pull data from the political archives and cite them back to us with some eye-opening effect. When he calls Paul Martin out for fiscal jiggery-pokery when the Finance Minister shifted $20 billion of EI contributions into general revenue, I have to admit that is the first time I've seen that in print (although I remember Martin doing it and being appalled at the man's chutzpah). Willerton does several of these journalistic exhumations to pretty good effect on behalf of fiscal conservatism, and it's rather sad to think that he undermines his own point of view by subscribing so maniacally to socially conservative biases that don't bear the weight of the slightest critical scrutiny.
Although I find many of his ideas undermined by his own single-minded convictions, some of which I'll get to in a moment, it is somewhat entertaining to get into the head of a man who speaks so volubly and passionately from the right wing of the political spectrum. At the very least, one has to admire a man who is so vigorously defending his own values, values which he believes are under constant, insidious, pernicious attack by anyone to his political left, including such offenders as Ralph Klein. I'm not making that up. Only stalwarts like Brad Wall and Connie Osterman merit his approval, if for no other reason than they have rejected Gay-Straight Alliances in high schools.
Willerton encourages his audience to do more of what they're doing--reading, that is--because it is certain that one's life can be changed by meeting people and reading books. But then he immediately takes that back by dissuading anyone from dipping into the wrong kinds of books, like those penned by Naomi Klein or any left-wing rabble-rousers of her ilk. What he admits to here is that he is a polemicist: a supporter of only one side of any argument because he just couldn't be bothered to investigate what the other side is saying because it's so clearly not worth consideration. Thus he dismisses the Left's take on global warming, public schooling, gun control, and a raft of other issues that absolutely need to be discussed from as many points of view as possible. That makes him less than entertaining.
When he says that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice and that the Communists are responsible for encouraging experimentation in becoming gay through GSAs and public school curricula, all of which is going to lead to the extirpation of Western civilization (just like it did in Rome), he sounds as off-base and looneybird nuts as he gets. Unfortunately, he claims that he is constantly running into people who wholeheartedly agree with him and that they are the majority of common sense intelligent folks in Canada. Although I don't have a great deal of faith in the common sense and intelligence of the average person, even I have to question that claim.
But he isn't completely out to lunch. I respect his ability to pull data from the political archives and cite them back to us with some eye-opening effect. When he calls Paul Martin out for fiscal jiggery-pokery when the Finance Minister shifted $20 billion of EI contributions into general revenue, I have to admit that is the first time I've seen that in print (although I remember Martin doing it and being appalled at the man's chutzpah). Willerton does several of these journalistic exhumations to pretty good effect on behalf of fiscal conservatism, and it's rather sad to think that he undermines his own point of view by subscribing so maniacally to socially conservative biases that don't bear the weight of the slightest critical scrutiny.
December 1, 2020
I truly wish I could get back the time I spent reading this excuse of a book. I wish 0 stars was an option.
Homosexuality is a choice and it’s promoted by communists. Worst thing to ever happen to Canada is homosexual marriage. Worst thing he says. Ever.
Blows my mind that this is even considered logical and a “good read” by anyone with a brain.
Homosexuality is a choice and it’s promoted by communists. Worst thing to ever happen to Canada is homosexual marriage. Worst thing he says. Ever.
Blows my mind that this is even considered logical and a “good read” by anyone with a brain.
December 15, 2019
Garbage. Deserves 0 stars out of five, but unfortunately I have to give one.
The Qur'an and Hadiths at least have the benefit that they came out of an age of barbarism, so their author couldn't know better. Willerton has no such excuse. He has no excuse to be utterly ignorant of the past 200 or so years of biological science pointing to evidence of the theory of evolution. He has no excuse to the past 10 or so years into the science going into the finer details of how homosexuality works both in the animal kingdom and in humanity generally. He has no excuse to be ignorant of the scandals that rocked Canada during the Harper years. Or how science works (ie what a scientific theory is). This book is a gigantic Argument from Ignorance - with as its core thesis the idea that gay marriage is a bad thing, in fact *the* bad thing - the worst thing that has ever happened to Canada.
Not the hundreds of thousands of young men who's blood was spilled in places like vimy ridge. Not the gutting of our military including advanced weapons like the avro arrow so the US government could be appeased. Not putting a whole generation's lives on hold while we stopped pretty much everything we were doing and joined the effort to stop hitler from taking over the world. Not oh I don't know, the killing of the buffalo. Or the residential school system. No, the *real* problem in all of canadian history is apparently gay marriage.
He hammers on the point, over and over again, from so many different vantage points of what to do about the gays. The gays who secretly conspire at the heart of our legal system. Gay students who want to organize in student groups. He does lay claim, early in the book, that he wishes peaceful coexistence...but later in the book rants against them quite harshly which suggests that olive branch was an afterthought.
It's also a really poorly written book. He reiterates getting his job at the CTF over and over again. It's clearly copypasta from pre-existing writings...this stuff belongs on a blog. But then, if it was a blog, this 'scribe' would probably not be able to claim that he's a published author. Willerton could have done 5 minutes of research on half the things he said, and come up with something far more enlightening than what he actually published, but seems to have chosen not to. "Fix Canada" is so far going to be my go-to example of why Barrett Brown was right - that in the past, this sort of book would have been published, and spread around and there wasn't much you could do but in the 21st century we can actually check his arguments, and verify his claims (and their divergence from reality) in close to realtime.
He does cite *some* sources (including one of the the Friends of Science, FUD source Tim Ball is cited when Willerton wants to claim ignorance about how the climate actually works. Adam Smith is cited (and, though I'll doublecheck, might be the only work of economics actually cited?). There is some discussion of the Laffer curve (pretty thoroughly uncited, and with 0 data points given to clue us in to the question of utmost importance - *where* on the Laffer curve Canada/Alberta/wherever is). The end of the book lists about 15-19 books to follow up on and there's probably another 2-3 dozen books and articles mentioned throughout the book...but it's pretty sparse given the breadth and depth of his claims. Pretty much every 2-page chapter is filled with unproven assertions, things that don't stand up to more than a second or two of critical thought.
For example.
You'll see him railing against the liberals for irresponsible spending and boondoggles ...but then he's totally ok with the 2 trillion dollars that the F-35 program will soak up. And sure, much of that will be soaked up south of the border. But a lot of it will not be. The F-35 is a textbook example of overspending and under delivering, but that's ok because it's different when the defence contractors and the military industrial complex is on the take. That's totally fine.
And somehow it's "economic suicide" for Quebec to separate, but it's conceivable that a Wexit style "west" separation from liberal eastern canada and their "culture of defeat" wouldn't be...again with no data cited suggesting either way, just statements out of the blue saying as much.
What would a Canada "fixed" look like? Torture of gay children at conversion centers (one very cult-like one cited in the book). Reduced agency over the reproductive systems of women. Probably a ripping up of the treaties with first nations people that allow Canada to even exist and offering Tim Hortons in their place. Harsher treatment of the poor in court. A country hostile to science and deeper into the Harper mini-dark age that obviously spawned thinkers like Willerton.
I wonder if the Sunni muslim who lent me this book will react when I tell him how it ends.
That all said I did learn a few things from this book. For example the giving of money to the government of Ethiopia during their famine, and their military spending spending at the time juxtaposed. There is something to that situation that was covered at the time but that his highlighting does do justice to. And the alleged burning of believers who didn't pray to Muhammad (ﷺ) 's standards.
Unfortunately people like Willerton gain credibility when people like Ezra Levant and Bill Whatcott are censored. Their censorship fans the flames of his ignorance, something we could do without.
Finally, as a last point:
"To paraphrase an old Bob Dylan song, how many deaths will it take 'til we know, that it's time to reconsider our restrictive gun laws?"
Bob Dylan was very clearly talking about banning guns. To ban the cannon ball, to put an end to war and murder using them. Forever. This may not be the only thing that Willerton utterly and completely missed the point of...but it's probably representative of so many other issues, and things which he gives the same treatment to.
The Qur'an and Hadiths at least have the benefit that they came out of an age of barbarism, so their author couldn't know better. Willerton has no such excuse. He has no excuse to be utterly ignorant of the past 200 or so years of biological science pointing to evidence of the theory of evolution. He has no excuse to the past 10 or so years into the science going into the finer details of how homosexuality works both in the animal kingdom and in humanity generally. He has no excuse to be ignorant of the scandals that rocked Canada during the Harper years. Or how science works (ie what a scientific theory is). This book is a gigantic Argument from Ignorance - with as its core thesis the idea that gay marriage is a bad thing, in fact *the* bad thing - the worst thing that has ever happened to Canada.
Not the hundreds of thousands of young men who's blood was spilled in places like vimy ridge. Not the gutting of our military including advanced weapons like the avro arrow so the US government could be appeased. Not putting a whole generation's lives on hold while we stopped pretty much everything we were doing and joined the effort to stop hitler from taking over the world. Not oh I don't know, the killing of the buffalo. Or the residential school system. No, the *real* problem in all of canadian history is apparently gay marriage.
He hammers on the point, over and over again, from so many different vantage points of what to do about the gays. The gays who secretly conspire at the heart of our legal system. Gay students who want to organize in student groups. He does lay claim, early in the book, that he wishes peaceful coexistence...but later in the book rants against them quite harshly which suggests that olive branch was an afterthought.
It's also a really poorly written book. He reiterates getting his job at the CTF over and over again. It's clearly copypasta from pre-existing writings...this stuff belongs on a blog. But then, if it was a blog, this 'scribe' would probably not be able to claim that he's a published author. Willerton could have done 5 minutes of research on half the things he said, and come up with something far more enlightening than what he actually published, but seems to have chosen not to. "Fix Canada" is so far going to be my go-to example of why Barrett Brown was right - that in the past, this sort of book would have been published, and spread around and there wasn't much you could do but in the 21st century we can actually check his arguments, and verify his claims (and their divergence from reality) in close to realtime.
He does cite *some* sources (including one of the the Friends of Science, FUD source Tim Ball is cited when Willerton wants to claim ignorance about how the climate actually works. Adam Smith is cited (and, though I'll doublecheck, might be the only work of economics actually cited?). There is some discussion of the Laffer curve (pretty thoroughly uncited, and with 0 data points given to clue us in to the question of utmost importance - *where* on the Laffer curve Canada/Alberta/wherever is). The end of the book lists about 15-19 books to follow up on and there's probably another 2-3 dozen books and articles mentioned throughout the book...but it's pretty sparse given the breadth and depth of his claims. Pretty much every 2-page chapter is filled with unproven assertions, things that don't stand up to more than a second or two of critical thought.
For example.
You'll see him railing against the liberals for irresponsible spending and boondoggles ...but then he's totally ok with the 2 trillion dollars that the F-35 program will soak up. And sure, much of that will be soaked up south of the border. But a lot of it will not be. The F-35 is a textbook example of overspending and under delivering, but that's ok because it's different when the defence contractors and the military industrial complex is on the take. That's totally fine.
And somehow it's "economic suicide" for Quebec to separate, but it's conceivable that a Wexit style "west" separation from liberal eastern canada and their "culture of defeat" wouldn't be...again with no data cited suggesting either way, just statements out of the blue saying as much.
What would a Canada "fixed" look like? Torture of gay children at conversion centers (one very cult-like one cited in the book). Reduced agency over the reproductive systems of women. Probably a ripping up of the treaties with first nations people that allow Canada to even exist and offering Tim Hortons in their place. Harsher treatment of the poor in court. A country hostile to science and deeper into the Harper mini-dark age that obviously spawned thinkers like Willerton.
I wonder if the Sunni muslim who lent me this book will react when I tell him how it ends.
That all said I did learn a few things from this book. For example the giving of money to the government of Ethiopia during their famine, and their military spending spending at the time juxtaposed. There is something to that situation that was covered at the time but that his highlighting does do justice to. And the alleged burning of believers who didn't pray to Muhammad (ﷺ) 's standards.
Unfortunately people like Willerton gain credibility when people like Ezra Levant and Bill Whatcott are censored. Their censorship fans the flames of his ignorance, something we could do without.
Finally, as a last point:
"To paraphrase an old Bob Dylan song, how many deaths will it take 'til we know, that it's time to reconsider our restrictive gun laws?"
Bob Dylan was very clearly talking about banning guns. To ban the cannon ball, to put an end to war and murder using them. Forever. This may not be the only thing that Willerton utterly and completely missed the point of...but it's probably representative of so many other issues, and things which he gives the same treatment to.
October 25, 2017
Definitely gives you a lot to think about. Many of these issues I totally agree with and the author gives a different way at looking at these issues and maybe the reason behind why they have popped up. I hope that we can one day Fix Canada!
April 4, 2023
My wife bought this book from Jeff when he was peddling it at her office, it was the only way to get him to leave. His writing style is hard to read but I was intrigued enough to get through the intro. But immediately hit a wall at "is Orientation a choice?". I laughed the first time reading through the chapter, and then laughed again with my family as I recited a few of the most rediculous statements he claims are facts while he speaks for the majority. I am glad he started it out the way he did, the book hit the recycle bin before I had inadvertently wasted time reading further. Thank goodness we live in a country where people have the freedom to self publish garbage like this, it keeps the ignorants like Jeff out in the open where we can keep an eye on them I guess. Jeff here is a FACT, and I speak for the MAJORITY, no one likes your book. But I think you know that, the objective is just to catch as many people off guard as possible at work so you can make a living. So instead, if you are going to pressure people to spend $20 why not write something that unites people and is uplifting. At least in the end it may still be garbage but we would feel better.
April 24, 2025
The 21st edition of Fix Canada by Jeff Willerton landed in my mailbox back in July 2024 with a letter from the author saying that someone bought 500 copies so Jeff could distribute them for free. After taking a quick scan, I was about to toss it into the recycle bin. However, I thought that if someone could take the time and expense to bring the book to my doorstep, the least I could do was read it, no matter how off-putting it was.
First, I'm learning to write books myself, so I appreciate the courage it takes to put yourself out there. But at least I know what I'm writing is fiction. Second, for a professed high school educated person, the writing may be very colloquial, but far better than some of the professionally published stuff that I've read. Finally, my perspective comes from a person who is the same age as the author (60), also served in the military (though I served a lot longer), and has lived across the country. I've lived in Alberta for almost 25 years.
I will say that the short chapters made this a great bathroom reading book. That's where the rest of the shit in this house is collected, so it was a good fit and a match made in heaven.
Did I say heaven? Jeff is a loud and often proclaimed Christian, which is fine. However, Christian values are not the only "right" values in the world. And this is coming from someone who is male, white, straight, and from a relatively Christian background. And the Bible is not a book that I take literally or see as 100% accurate. Jeff and his support reviewer, Brandon, will likely say that I'm going to Hell, but there's more than one point of view out there.
From reading the entire book, notes included, I know what the author doesn't like: homosexuals, non-Christian viewpoints about what should or shouldn't be taught in schools, euthanasia/medically assisted dying, abortion, VLTs, the Liberals, the Conservatives, the NDP, Communists and anything else that leans anything to the left of far Right.
Jeff has lots to say on COVID and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I read manufactured crisis throughout. Also, he has a lot to say about the World Health Organization, as well as what I think he would call a secret cabal - the World Economic Forum. He doesn't like Doug Ford, Jason Kenney (for giving into doctors for the lockdown), Danielle Smith, Ralph Klein gets special hate attention, as do other federal or provincial leaders, past and present. Last but not least, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Justin Trudeau, as well as Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are all prominent objects of hatred and scorn.
There are no climate crisis or over-population concerns in Jeff's world. And he can quote scientific proof. However, anyone who has spent any time researching anything will always find people on either side of an argument who can trot out information to support your arguments. That's why there's a Flat Earth Society in Canada that held a rally in Edmonton and Holocaust denial is still to be found. I don't know if they issue tin foil hats or have to buy or make them themselves. But they would probably find a home in Jeff's world as long as they believe in the Bible, as little government regulation and taxation as possible and are okay with unrestricted gun ownership. Want the world to be a safer place? According to Jeff, give everyone a gun. Having handled them for many years in the army, while I think there is some room for responsible weapon ownership, walking around with open and concealed carry like in the US is not where Canada wants or needs to go.
There are some odd and small points on which I agree with Jeff, but my agreement is more general, like our tax dollars could be better spent at all levels of government and that there are some political parties I will never vote for. But after that we abruptly part company. With all the vitriol and hatred about gay people ruining schools and the world and Canada being a step away from becoming a communist country because of homosexuality is bullshit. Did I say I was straight and married? I am. However, homosexuality has always existed throughout history, so why not recognize that fact and not drive it underground? Ever hear you can't fix stupid? You likely can't fix gay, either. But in Jeff's world, it's a bad choice. If only the Catholic Church would allow priests to get married, gay or otherwise, maybe there would be more change. But better to close your eyes to it and pretend it never happens.... But I digress.
While my thinking about life and people and the issues raised by Jeff Willerton has evolved and in some areas changed over the years, I think Jeff is still locked in the 1980s and 1990s. Things have changed and the larger part of society has adapted its thinking. I'm not a big fan of cancel culture and many other things, but tolerance of people is something I've learned a lot about over the years.
Overall, I think that everyone is entitled to their opinion. But had it not been for me wanting to support a local author, I would have tossed this book out. I applaud Jeff for the courage to write his book and keep updating. I have to say that I found the fact that most of the articles were written in the 1990s and the various editions merely updates to those articles indicative of the author's unwillingness to shift his thinking. I'm amazed at the strength, vehemence and righteousness of his convictions. However, we, and most of the world, thankfully don't share them. Otherwise Canada would be headed for a world like Donald Trump is trying to build for the US and the McCarthy era in the late 1940s/1950s. That's not a place where I would want to live. I won't put words in his mouth, but Jeff is likely cheering Trump on while most of the world is horrified at what a liar, bully and all around hypocrite the guy is.
Unless your political and social views lean to the very far right peg of the political scale in Canada, I would stay away from this book, or maybe read it to understand why the haters are so hateful.
First, I'm learning to write books myself, so I appreciate the courage it takes to put yourself out there. But at least I know what I'm writing is fiction. Second, for a professed high school educated person, the writing may be very colloquial, but far better than some of the professionally published stuff that I've read. Finally, my perspective comes from a person who is the same age as the author (60), also served in the military (though I served a lot longer), and has lived across the country. I've lived in Alberta for almost 25 years.
I will say that the short chapters made this a great bathroom reading book. That's where the rest of the shit in this house is collected, so it was a good fit and a match made in heaven.
Did I say heaven? Jeff is a loud and often proclaimed Christian, which is fine. However, Christian values are not the only "right" values in the world. And this is coming from someone who is male, white, straight, and from a relatively Christian background. And the Bible is not a book that I take literally or see as 100% accurate. Jeff and his support reviewer, Brandon, will likely say that I'm going to Hell, but there's more than one point of view out there.
From reading the entire book, notes included, I know what the author doesn't like: homosexuals, non-Christian viewpoints about what should or shouldn't be taught in schools, euthanasia/medically assisted dying, abortion, VLTs, the Liberals, the Conservatives, the NDP, Communists and anything else that leans anything to the left of far Right.
Jeff has lots to say on COVID and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I read manufactured crisis throughout. Also, he has a lot to say about the World Health Organization, as well as what I think he would call a secret cabal - the World Economic Forum. He doesn't like Doug Ford, Jason Kenney (for giving into doctors for the lockdown), Danielle Smith, Ralph Klein gets special hate attention, as do other federal or provincial leaders, past and present. Last but not least, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Justin Trudeau, as well as Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are all prominent objects of hatred and scorn.
There are no climate crisis or over-population concerns in Jeff's world. And he can quote scientific proof. However, anyone who has spent any time researching anything will always find people on either side of an argument who can trot out information to support your arguments. That's why there's a Flat Earth Society in Canada that held a rally in Edmonton and Holocaust denial is still to be found. I don't know if they issue tin foil hats or have to buy or make them themselves. But they would probably find a home in Jeff's world as long as they believe in the Bible, as little government regulation and taxation as possible and are okay with unrestricted gun ownership. Want the world to be a safer place? According to Jeff, give everyone a gun. Having handled them for many years in the army, while I think there is some room for responsible weapon ownership, walking around with open and concealed carry like in the US is not where Canada wants or needs to go.
There are some odd and small points on which I agree with Jeff, but my agreement is more general, like our tax dollars could be better spent at all levels of government and that there are some political parties I will never vote for. But after that we abruptly part company. With all the vitriol and hatred about gay people ruining schools and the world and Canada being a step away from becoming a communist country because of homosexuality is bullshit. Did I say I was straight and married? I am. However, homosexuality has always existed throughout history, so why not recognize that fact and not drive it underground? Ever hear you can't fix stupid? You likely can't fix gay, either. But in Jeff's world, it's a bad choice. If only the Catholic Church would allow priests to get married, gay or otherwise, maybe there would be more change. But better to close your eyes to it and pretend it never happens.... But I digress.
While my thinking about life and people and the issues raised by Jeff Willerton has evolved and in some areas changed over the years, I think Jeff is still locked in the 1980s and 1990s. Things have changed and the larger part of society has adapted its thinking. I'm not a big fan of cancel culture and many other things, but tolerance of people is something I've learned a lot about over the years.
Overall, I think that everyone is entitled to their opinion. But had it not been for me wanting to support a local author, I would have tossed this book out. I applaud Jeff for the courage to write his book and keep updating. I have to say that I found the fact that most of the articles were written in the 1990s and the various editions merely updates to those articles indicative of the author's unwillingness to shift his thinking. I'm amazed at the strength, vehemence and righteousness of his convictions. However, we, and most of the world, thankfully don't share them. Otherwise Canada would be headed for a world like Donald Trump is trying to build for the US and the McCarthy era in the late 1940s/1950s. That's not a place where I would want to live. I won't put words in his mouth, but Jeff is likely cheering Trump on while most of the world is horrified at what a liar, bully and all around hypocrite the guy is.
Unless your political and social views lean to the very far right peg of the political scale in Canada, I would stay away from this book, or maybe read it to understand why the haters are so hateful.
June 10, 2024
I bought this directly from the author because I like being supportive of small authors and he came to my office to sell it himself and I felt he was a nice enough man...
From the little I read it came off as an extremely misogynistic, racist, homophobic, white men take on social issues and politics.
I obviously didn't read most of it as soon as I started reading on how sexual orientation is a choice and it's liberal propaganda??? Also ab*otion is cold blooded murder according to this man who doesn't have a uterus... I'm not even gonna continue honestly I'm tired of white men and their opinions.
I'm a queer immigrant so I'm clearly just not his close minded target audience. (:
From the little I read it came off as an extremely misogynistic, racist, homophobic, white men take on social issues and politics.
I obviously didn't read most of it as soon as I started reading on how sexual orientation is a choice and it's liberal propaganda??? Also ab*otion is cold blooded murder according to this man who doesn't have a uterus... I'm not even gonna continue honestly I'm tired of white men and their opinions.
I'm a queer immigrant so I'm clearly just not his close minded target audience. (:
January 13, 2025
wasn't worth the money......glad my grandfather, a former provincial Tory back bencher isnt around to read this hogwash. We can tell you were raised in a white supremist community.
April 6, 2023
Author is one of the most revolting individuals I’ve ever met. Smug arrogance, outdated views, and slimy sales tactics are only a few of his character defining qualities. Hard to take any of his book seriously based on writers knowledge and education surrounding the topics covered . It has been a good laugh to find out there are truly still backwards thinking individuals in the province of Alberta.
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