Cy Gonick"Richard Sanders' 'Captive Canada' is an exceptional piece of research that successfully interweaves a number of related stories some of which stretch over a hundred years. I'm thinking, for example of the oppressive roles of the Church and the State with respect to the indigenous peoples. Another is the roles of various revered leaders of the social gospel movement together with the RCMP in hounding out more radical elements of the left from its midst, a variation of which combined much later to expel the Waffle movement from the New Democratic Party.
"Sanders' research uncovers the strenuous efforts to protect Canada from being contaminated with, let alone captured by, dangerous thoughts and actions."