Eugene Lang was a former chief of staff to two of Canada’s Liberal ministers of defence from 2002 to 2006.[1] He co-authored with Janice Gross Stein a book The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (Penguin, 2007)[2]
The Liberal Party, after dominating Canadian politics since the 1920s, has been in decline in the 21st century. As Lang (2010) concludes, they lost their majority in Parliament in the 2004 election, were defeated in 2006, and in 2008 became little more than a rump, falling to their lowest seat count and popular vote since the 1980s. Furthermore, says Lang, its prospects "are as bleak as they have ever been."[3]