John Stephenson is a Bay Street and Wall Street veteran and a former employee of Enron Corporation—where he learned how the finance and business world really works. In his new book, Shell Shocked-How Canadians Can Invest After the Collapse, John explains why Canada will be the ultimate beneficiary of the global financial crisis.

Shell Shocked explains why Canada will be the ultimate beneficiary of the global economic crisis and why buying all the Canada you can get makes sense. On just about every measure, Canada is ahead of the pack. We have the best fiscal situation of any G8 country. Our banking system, while not unblemished, has survived the meltdown and is an ideal position to cherry-pick the cream of the crop globally. Canada’s housing sector, while over-valued, never saw the excesses so prevalent in Great Britain or the United States. We have a national health care system, our government sector is strong and our reputation globally has been enhanced rather than diminished by this ordeal.

We’ve always been told that diversification outside of Canada made good investment sense. That Canada was just too small, too unproductive and too short on global champions to justify investing solely at home. But the world has changed. Canada is rising and so too are the prospects for Canadian investors. Shell Shocked dispels the common wisdom with a bold claim—Canada is ground zero for investment success.

See John discussing his new book with BNN's MoneyTalk host Patricia Lovett-Reid