FEATURES: TOWARDS A JUST ECONOMY, THE TRUDEAU YEARS BY: THOMAS AXWORTHY, PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU
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C) FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING - VIKING PUBLISHING 1990
D) NOTE: BOOK BEARS SIGNATURES OF SIX PROMINENT CANADIANS. 1. PIERRE TRUDEAU - PRIME MINISTER 2. JIM COUTTS - LONG TIME LIBERAL ASSISTANT TO PRIME MINISTERS PIERRE TRUDEAU AND LB PEARSON. 3. JOHN ROBERTS SERVED UNDER PIERRE TRUDEAU SECRETARY OF STATE AND VARIOUS MINISTRIES. 4. RAMSAY COOK - PROMINENT CANDIAN HISTORIAN. 5. FERNAND OUELLET - CELEBRATED FRENCH CANADIAN HISTORIAN 6. JACQUES HEBERT - CANADIAN SENATOR AND JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR - HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. RARE THUS. 404 PAGES.
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About: This collection of essays, edited by Pierre Trudeau and Thomas Axworthy, offers a controversial perspective on the challenges that Canada must face if the country is to survive and prosper. Essayists include Trudeau, Jean Chretien, Marc Lalonde, and historian Ramsay Cook. They cover the Trudeau government's sixteen years in power, patriation of the constitution, and the importance of a federalist state.
Contents : Part I : Introduction (by Thomas S. Axworthy and Pierre Elliott Trudeau).
Part II: The Global Transformation. 1. "To Stand Not So High Perhaps but Always Alone": The Foreign Policy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau (by Thomas S. Axworthy ). 2. Riding the Storm: Energy Policy, 1968-1984 (by Marc Lalonde). 3. Canadian Industrial Policy in a Changing World (by Joel Bell). 4. Global Transformation and Economic Policy (by lan A. Stewart).
Part III: A Society in Ferment. 5. Legislating for Freedom (by Jacques Hébert). 6. Meeting the Environmental Challenge (by John Roberts). 7. Expansion, Retrenchment and Protecting the Future: Social Policy in the Trudeau Years (by Jim Coutts).
Part IV: The Challenge of Federalism 1968.: 8. Language Policy and the Mood in Quebec (by Gerard Pelletier). 9. Fiscal Federalism in Evolution (by Thomas K. Shoyama). 10. Regional Development: Innovations in the West (by Lloyd Axworthy).
Part V: The Institutional Framework. 11. The Party and Parliament: Participatory Democracy in the Trudeau Years (by Lorna Marsden). 12. Bringing the Constitution Home (by Jean Chretien).
Part VI: Quebec and Confederation: Views from the Outside. 13. The Quiet Revolution: A Turning Point (by Fernand Ouellet). 14. "I never thought I could be as proud .": The Trudeau-Levesque Debate (by Ramsay Cook).
Part VII: The Values of a Just Society (by Pierre Elliott Trudeau). - A thank you from BooksCardsNBikes
