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Reviewed in Canada on September 16, 2021

Liberal loyalists are not happy with this book. For people as obsessed with vanity as they are, one might be surprised that they don’t like being shown this mirror.

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Captain Midnight

Not Worth Reading

Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2021

Makes a poor door stop. Hysterical ravings of someone who should never have gotten into politics.

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Captain Midnight

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Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2021

Makes a poor door stop. Hysterical ravings of someone who should never have gotten into politics.

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Well written, not worth reading.

Reviewed in Canada on September 20, 2021

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A well written, extraordinarily confusing, rant against Canadian politics. Written by a Canadian Politician. (Printed in the United States)
Somehow elected twice, once as a Liberal and once as an independent, JRW delves deeply into her own thoughts and lessons from her formative years. Then after explaining how she was brought up to always listen to others and work with them to form a consensus, she digs in her heels and refuses to do just that.

One could read this book and decide that she did the right thing on principle. Good for her. Lots of folks do that every day but never brag about it. It’s really not worth writing a book about and certainly not worth reading because so much of what really happened is left out.

Sadly the book never explains exactly what SNC did and how they did it. Business is carried out in different ways in different countries. To be successful you need to go along with “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”. Different cultures require doing business in different ways. Apparently SNC was found to have used bribery in another country to gain contracts. (In Canada we call that “developers permits” ) Perhaps they should never have been charged in the first place. We may never know.

The bottom line is this. The book is well written but not worth reading. The intent was to bring out the book right before the election to cast a bad light on Trudeau. It fails simply because too much is left out.

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RM Bracci

an exercise in self aggrandization

Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2021

Jody Raybould at least in my mind weaves a story in which she is the hero, and everyone else is only there for her to overcome and vanquish. She is clever in her use of "me-too" type guilt transposition to make all the men in her story power hungry know-it-alls, many fell for her story including the media who smelled blood in the water and wanted to get in on the felling of a government. Obviously I didn't believe her story nor did I believe the subtle revisions as the story progressed. She lost her "dream" cabinet position because of several things and competence certainly wasn't one of them. She was responsible, whether the reason was spite or forgetfulness, in the case of Glen Assoun's prolonged suffering by a full 18 months because of the inaction in her job as Federal Justice Minister. There should be a full inquiry into this and I would go as far to say that perhaps Mr Assoun should sue her for depraved indifference if the government should not see fit to launch an inquiry. She should not be able to walk away from that whether claiming her victimhood or her self generated status as a hero.

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Robert MacBain

More revisionist "history"

Reviewed in Canada on September 30, 2021

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There is precious little in this book that she has not already said.
Statements and speeches she made in the past. Her testimony before the House of Commons committee. Transcript of the phone call she recorded with the clerk of the privy council.
Nothing about her white grandparents, aunts uncles and cousins, and why she believes Indigenous Canadians should remain on the reserves and live as a race apart.

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brooke101

Boring

Reviewed in Canada on September 21, 2021

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It’s an interesting story, it just didn’t translate into an interesting book. It’s not a good book. Anything that you want to read about, isn’t allowed to be talked about because of Cabinet confidentiality. Most conversations are just alluded to, without any personal/ emotional details added. Others, are transcribed, as they are available transcribed publicly. “There was a Liberal caucus meeting. It was a shit show. I’ll leave it at that” K great- but we’re actually here for the shit show. A simple google search will provide more details than this book and without the hearty price tag or boring details added

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Guy LaBossiere

Interesting!

Reviewed in Canada on September 15, 2021

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Interesting but nothing surprising. The author should have stayed as an independent. She was a bright light for all Canadians

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Sharon C

Culmination of a Personal Agenda

Reviewed in Canada on September 20, 2021

Everything about this narrative and the timing of its release indicates that the author acted on a carefully calculated agenda. The writer expresses an attitude so at odds with the Canadian poitical arena, one has to question her motives for entering such a space.

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Ignatz Pepachuk

I really wanted to like this book, but...

Reviewed in Canada on October 3, 2021

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I had high expectations to hear JWR's side of her story. Unfortunately, as she admits, she is not a writer. Her editors' did her no service by letting this out in its present form. The SNC stuff reveals nothing new. She is entirely uncritical of her life and work as MOJAG and idealizes her prior life in indigenous politics. Other important people in the book are all 2 dimensional and drop in or drop out of the story without explanation.
I really wanted to learn more about her life as a prosecutor and who she was prior to signing up as candidate in 2015. Alas there is little here other than learning that she came from a noble hereditary line of leaders and that she was just fulfilling her destiny (!). She inadvertently reveals that she was desperately naive and unrealistic about the mechanics of government. I'm actually more sympathetic to the PMO now than I was before... and I don't think that's what she intended!

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Walter Benstead

Disappointing and bland

Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2021

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Too much discussion of Affairs bureaucracy and not enough on expected SNC Lavalin scandal

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Sardis Siren

Jody is missing from this Cabinet...

Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2021

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I was disappointed in this book. There was no reflexivity on the pages. A big miss as far as I am concerned. bought the kindle version. Its super boringly written. Her husband is completely missing in the narrative....

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