From the Foreword by Jonathon Van Maren:

"Michael Wagner’s Standing on Guard for Thee isn’t just an important book. It is both a corrective, and a reminder. Canada is now a post-Christian country by every metric—a mere 11% of Canadians attend any form of worship regularly—but it was not always thus. Our country was transformed in the decades between the two Trudeaus, and our new national narrative is now that our founding values had to be abandoned in order for Canada to become the bastion of secular progressivism that now defines our image at home and on the world stage. . . . When academics and historians turn their attention to the pro-life or pro-family movement, it is usually to celebrate their defeats or mock their failings. The story of Canada’s Christian counter-revolutionaries has been left largely unwritten—until now. Michael Wagner’s Standing on Guard for Thee: The Past, Present, and Future of Canada’s Religious Right offers the other side of the story."