Last night, Carleton's Faculty of Public and Global Affairs held an Authors Meet Readers event at Irene's Pub for the
Steve/Phil/Dave book:
Overseen or Overlooked--Legislators, Armed Forces and Democratic Accountability. I gave our origin story--how the book started from a surprising conversation with a Canadian member of parliament who sat on the defence committee. His lack of information, lack of influence surprised me (not so much Phil) and got us started on this project. Phil summarized our argument, dodging the invitation to discuss how hard it is to co-author with me. Justin Massie, from UQAM, served as our discussant/commentator. He asked great questions as did the audience, which was a good, engaged crowd.
Our basic message--in most democracies, legislators and legislatures are not doing enough, and Canada's parliament is among the most blissfully ignorant. Woot!
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| Phil presented the argument of the book |
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Justin asked some very thoughtful questions
that produced an excellent conversation |
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| Required post-event pic |
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