Prime Minister Harper governed from 2005 to 2015, and steered the country through turbulent waters. During the global financial crisis, unemployment in Canada rose to 8.5 percent, compared with 10 percent in the US, while GDP growth in Canada fell only 1 percent compared with a decline of 4 percent in the US. His time in office coincided with the emergence of populist parties and pressures similar to those in a number of countries. The UK was faced, and still is, with negotiating Brexit. European countries are seeing growing support for populist parties, largely in response to the inflow of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. At the time of writing this review, a walking caravan of several thousand migrants is travelling from Central America towards the US to claim refugee status. Previous flows into the US have shaped the politics of its elections. This one will also. The book contains a number of meaty topics on which views vary as to the appropriate polices to enact. Harper describes populism as any political movement that places the wider interests of the common people ahead of the special interests of the privileged few." (Harper 2018: 13). The 2016 US presidential election does not however neatly fit this description, as 12 percent of Bernie Sanders' supporters voted for Trump who also had the support of the privileged few . Trump's subsequent public meetings, up to the 2018 midterm elections, have been well attended, filled with low wage "common people" who enthusiastically support his actions, and are viewed with horror by most Democrats and some Republicans.