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Scott Gardiner


Scott Gardiner is a political realist who shakes his head at what he sees in Canadian politics today and chooses, Richler-like, to point out currently respected lunacies. He is the author of The Dominion of Wyley McFadden (2000) and lives with his family in Toronto.

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King John of Canada
Written by Scott Gardiner

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Humorous
978-0-7710-3575-3 (0-7710-3575-6)

June 17, 2008 | $19.99



A hilarious political satire in the tradition of Mordecai Richler.

This is a funny, biting political satire set in the not-too-distant future. A series of minority governments, and endless Quebec referendums (designed to lose narrowly, to keep the money coming) have left Canada almost ungovernable. When the Governor General resigns in disgrace...