FREE TRADE, FREE CANADA-HOW FREE TRADE WILL MAKE CANADA STRONGER: INSIGHTS BY DISTINGUISHED CANADIANS. Edited by Earle Gray. Woodville (Ont.), Canadian Speeches, 1988. 169pp, paper, $9.95, ISBN 0-9693400-0-1. Distributed by Canadian Speeches, P.O. Box 250, Woodville, Ont. K0M 2T0. Grades 11 and up Reviewed by Howard Hurt Volume 16 Number 6 1988 November Each year Canadian Speeches publishes ten collections of addresses by prominent Canadians. The editor claims that they look for "diverse and decisive" views on current topics of national interest. In this case the views are without double decisive but they are anything but diverse. The first chapter does a good if abbreviated job of putting our vacillation concerning free trade in historical perspective. After that, however, no attempt is made to provide objectivity. The book offers twenty-three statements by business people, academics, bureaucrats and even artists who are enthusiastically positive about the proposed Canadian-American trade agreement. Prominently absent, of course, are contributions by labour leaders! These talks have been edited to lengths of between three and ten pages, and in most cases they demonstrate a commendably lucid and honest style. They would certainly pose no problem for reasonably motivated high school students. These speeches articulate one point of view exceedingly well but they would have been much more convincing if the editors had dared to pair them with opposing views. Howard Hurt, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.