The event will be held virtually and is open to all. BA in Political Studies from Queen’s University and an MA in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Adams is a Member of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest domestic honour. The true role of a president is to authorize things to happen.

His Distinguished Speakers lecture will be based on his contribution to the forthcoming edited collection, Canada and the United States: Differences That Count (University of Toronto Press). n his approach to guiding a university, Michael Adams is decidedly one who prefers to. From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.

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(2005), and his recent examination of Donald Trump’s election, Could It Happen Here? Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit was published in 2017. Adams’ books include American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change in the U.S. A Fox News guest who 'married herself' left Jesse Watters momentarily speechless during a discussion about her sologamy or marriage to oneself. This is a particularly timely discussion as the two nations are in the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with quite divergent approaches to dealing with the virus, along with Canada-US relations that have not quite returned to “normal” even after the end of the Trump presidency. Adams’ talk will be revisiting themes that have long dominated discussions of whether Canadians and Americans really are that different, and if so, whether they coming together or drifting further apart. Adams is the acclaimed author of Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada, and the Myth of Converging Values. The Mulroney Institute’s Distinguished Speakers Series is honoured to welcome Michael Adams, founder and president of the Environics Institute for Survey Research.

The Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Distinguished Speakers Series PresentsĪmerican Backlash, Canadian Compromise: Are Canadians and Americans Converging or Diverging?

Could It Happen Here? by Michael Adams