The Great Canadian Reset

Why Co-ops Are The Right Choice for Canada's Future

Ludovic Viger

• Publisher: Barlow Publishing
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781998841301
• Subtopic: Sustainable Development
• Index: Economics

In this wide-ranging book, Ludovic Viger explores how we can thrive when the economy slows down and even shrinks. We are facing a period of degrowth because the time of Cheap Oil, which has fueled our economic growth since the Industrial Revolution, is over. What's more, our current high-consumption lifestyle is making energy demands that will soon outstrip the capacity of the environment to renew itself. It's an ecological overshoot, the hallmark of many declining civilizations throughout history. WHY CO-OPS ARE THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR CANADA'S FUTURE So what are we supposed to do now? We'll need to consume less and conserve more. But it is possible to thrive in this world, and there's a proven model that shows how: co-ops. They've been successful in many spheres of life, from agriculture to housing to finance, and they've succeeded even in bad times. This is a book that provides a workable solution to the problems of our time, solutions that can be embraced by thinkers and policy-makers across the political spectrum.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Ecological Overshoot: A Civilization in Decline
• Chapter 2: The End of Growth: Living and Thriving in Economic Decline
• Chapter 3: From Globalism to Localism: Building Resilience
• Chapter 4: Economic Democracy, Co-operatives, and the Great Canadian Reset
• Chapter 5: Cultivating Resilience: Co-ops and the Canadian Manufacturing Sector
• Chapter 6: A Reset to Finance and Banking
• Chapter 7: Agriculture and Land Management
• Chapter 8: Addressing the Housing Crisis
• Chapter 9: Strengthening Political Democracy
• Chapter 10: A Canadian Co-operative Health Care System
• Conclusion: A Call to Action
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author
• Back Cover