Against the Odds: The Life and Times of an Accidental Politician

In this memoir, David Warner shares an engaging, lighthearted, and no-holds-barred narrative of his journey. “ If you think everything is so bad with the Tories, why don’ t you do something about it.” This was the challenge laid out to David Warner, then an elementary school teacher, by one of his colleagues. This challenge sparked a fifty-year political career as a New Democrat, beginning with his attempts to get elected in the 1972 and 1974 federal elections, followed by seven subsequent ...