English | Français This weekend Talk Politics for a new season on CPAC. Ken Rockburn's first guest is political scientist and author Michael Byers of the University of British Columbia. Byers talks about his new book " Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For ?". In it, Byers postulates that Canada with one of the highest standards of living, one of the largest economies and the largest source of oil and gas to the United States has the capacity to play an influential role in the world but doesn't. Byers argues that we have been saddled with governments, Liberal and Conservative, that despite their apparent cockiness and arrogance have little self-confidence to pursue policies that would move Canada forward. Also on the program Ken speaks with long-time political writer John Bart Gerald who talks about his passion for social justice that took him to Africa to work with Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer. After a few years there, Gerald returned to the United States where he then was caught up in the civil rights movement walking alongside another Nobel Prize Winner, Dr. Martin Luther King along the historic Selma to Montgomery march. Gerald now makes his home in Ottawa, Ken Rockburn spoke to him there.