Authentic Voice of Canada: R.B. Bennett Speeches in the House of Lords, 1941-1947 »

Christopher McCreery, private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, served as a senior advisor to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, the Speaker of the Senate and spent three years working as assistant to Senator Michael Kirby.

Summoned to the British House of Lords in 1941 by King George VI, Bennett, now Viscount Bennett, took part in some of the crucial debates of the Second World War and lent his voice to discussions in Parliament at Westminster as the United Kingdom and British Empire and Commonwealth prepared for the post-war years. He served in the Lords until his death in 1947, continuing his fight for the Canadian autonomy that he had done so much to establish as prime minister in Ottawa.

With a foreword by former Prime Minster John Turner, the book includes contributions from R.B.'s nephew, William R. Herridge, and David Asper, chair of the National Post.