Social Planning for Canada

Social Planning for Canada was published in 1935 and marked a turning point in Canadian political history. It was the first comprehensive democratic socialist book about Canada. It is the most comprehensive study by the Canadian left of an economic and social alternative to Canadian capitalism.

Michael Bliss was a Canadian historian and a University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and the History of Medicine Program at the University of Toronto. He was the author of numerous award-winning books in business and political history as well as the history of medicine, including popular biographies of Sir Frederick Banting, Sir William Osler, and Harvey Cushing. He was an Officer of the Order of Canada, an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the first historian to be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.