William Watson teaches economics at McGill University and is associated with four Canadian policy institutes: C.D. Howe, Fraser, IRPP, and MacDonald-Laurier. He is a regular columnist for both the National Post and Ottawa Citizen.

'William Watson is that rarest of economists: He can write. Watson has packaged his ideas into an iconoclastic, informative and fundamentally optimistic book. It's also, needless to say, an entertaining if not a sensationalist read ... Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life, a briskly argued book that will infuriate some readers, also offers enough arresting analysis, digestible numbers and clear prose to satisfy anyone interested in thinking about the Canada of yesterday, today and tomorrow.'Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail - Jeffrey Simpson (Globe and Mail) 'William Watson has written an indispensable book, one that will infuriate Canada's subsidy-nationalists and cheer every real patriot.'- David Frum (National Post) 'William Watson ... delights in puncturing some of the beliefs Canadians hold dear ...'(The Economist) 'One of William Watson's great achievements through this remarkable book is his ability to debunk, with humour, the layers of political and economic hokum at the core of modern-day Canadian nationalism.'- Terence Corcoran (Globe and Mail)

William Watson teaches economics at McGill University and is associated with four Canadian policy institutes: C.D. Howe, Fraser, IRPP, and MacDonald-Laurier. He is a regular columnist for both the National Post and Ottawa Citizen.

'William Watson is that rarest of economists: He can write. Watson has packaged his ideas into an iconoclastic, informative and fundamentally optimistic book. It's also, needless to say, an entertaining if not a sensationalist read ... Globalization and the Meaning of Canadian Life, a briskly argued book that will infuriate some readers, also offers enough arresting analysis, digestible numbers and clear prose to satisfy anyone interested in thinking about the Canada of yesterday, today and tomorrow.'Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail - Jeffrey Simpson (Globe and Mail) 'William Watson has written an indispensable book, one that will infuriate Canada's subsidy-nationalists and cheer every real patriot.'- David Frum (National Post) 'William Watson ... delights in puncturing some of the beliefs Canadians hold dear ...'(The Economist) 'One of William Watson's great achievements through this remarkable book is his ability to debunk, with humour, the layers of political and economic hokum at the core of modern-day Canadian nationalism.'- Terence Corcoran (Globe and Mail)