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Fraser Institute Senior Fellow Tom Flanagan has been
awarded the prestigious Donner Prize for his book,
First Nations? Second Thoughts
. The $25,000 Donner first prize is awarded for best book on
Canadian public policy.
In this provocative book Flanagan argues that the current
approach to aboriginal policy is both unworkable and ultimately
destructive to the very people it is supposed to help. The
business of treaty-making with Aboriginal tribes will clearly
continue to be a major issue in Canada, and
First Nations? Second Thoughts
presents a unique and comprehensive analysis of aboriginal
policy.
"Receiving the Donner Prize was a wonderful and unexpected
honour. I hope it will lead more Canadians to read my book and
join in the badly needed public debate over the direction of
aboriginal policy," says Flanagan.
In addition to his role as a Senior Fellow at the Institute, Tom
Flanagan is a professor of political science at the University of
Calgary and has published three previous books on Louis Riel and
Métis land claims.
Institute Senior Fellows F.L. Morton and Rainer Knopff were
runners-up for the Donner Prize for their book, The Charter
Revolution & the Court Party. Their influential book
documents how the judiciary has become more activist since 1982
and the role played in this new activism by special interest
groups.
"We are very proud to have scholars of the calibre of Professors
Flanagan, Morton and Knopff working in the Fraser Institute's
Calgary office. During the next year Tom will continue his work
on first nations, and Professors Morton and Knopff will continue
their research on the role of the courts in Canada's
constitutional democracy," says Lydia Miljan, director of the
Institute's Alberta Initiative.
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