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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826304903321

Titolo

Alien invasion : how the Harris Tories mismanaged Ontario / / edited by Ruth Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, : Insomniac Press, c2001

ISBN

1-280-91095-X

9786610910953

1-4593-0948-0

1-897414-87-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CohenRuth

Disciplina

971.3/03

Soggetti

Ontario Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part One: The Background to the Harris Revolution; Chapter 1: Prologue; Chapter 2: How Did We Get Here?; Part Two: Re-engineering Ontario; Chapter 3: The True Believers; Chapter 4: The Harris Record; Part Three: Essential Reading; Chapter 5: The Harris Tories In Context; Chapter 6: What Can Be Done?; Part Four: Conclusion; The Madness In the Method of the Common Sense Revolution; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Alien Invasion is the first critical look at the past eight years of Tory rule in Ontario. How did a province renowned for being middle-of-the-road suddenly embrace the forces of far-right conservatism? How have the cuts to health care, the spectre of private universities, regular public sector strikes, and the tragedy in Walkerton all come to pass? Here, 20 essays expose strategies the Harris government has previously hidden from view. Using criticism, commentary and transcripts of government seminars, Alien Invasion reveals the techniques that a group of ''whiz kids'' working for the Harris