Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog

By Linwood Barclay

Book Overview

Where are we, three years into Ontario's Common Sense Revolution? Hospitals and schools are closing by the hundreds; thousands of nurses and teachers and other workers are jobless; schools are in chaos; pregnant welfare mothers have lost their nutrition allowance because the Premier thinks they'll spend it on beer; Toronto the megacity is collapsing under the weight of its own amalgamated administration; the Premier's last cultural experience was Mr. Silly; the rich are getting larger tax cuts while the province won't spring to bury the homeless; welfare recipients deserve to be fingerprinted, but motorists running red lights shouldn't have their pictures taken because it would violate their privacy.

What can you do but laugh?

That's the approach taken by Linwood Barclay, who's been skewering the current occupiers of Queen's Park in his Toronto Star column since they took office. His new book Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog comes just in time; it's an informed and viciously satirical look at the Ontario Tories, who've polarized public opinion unlike any other government in the province's history.

Chapters include a look at the so-called Whiz Kids advising the Premier: "There's Tiffany, age 6, whose political credo is 'Mine Mine '" Find out what happens at a meeting of the Tory cabinet's book club. Learn how the homeless can help you get a big-screen tv, and discover 10 fun things to do, in your final moments, while waiting in the emergency room.

This book will become increasingly relevant, and a much needed stress-reliever, as Ontario approaches its next election.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550223682
• ISBN13: 9781550223682
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Before there was Dalton...

There was Linwood. While Dalton has been accused by his opponents of being an "evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet," Linwood admits to having consumed his canine. It's in the title of his book! And what else do they have in common? Their opposition to Mike Harris! Obviously the consumption of domestic animals is linked to a lack of "common sense" as defined by the glorious "common sense revolution" that restored Ontarians lost sense of order in the cosmos. It was Harris who so sensibly told us that we should keep pregnant women poor in order to reduce their beer consumption. And now, in his wake, and with his support, the country is thoroughly in the thralls of Belinda-mania. Even I'm going to hold one of her chic house-parties, here in Cambridge MA. I'm going to invite Noam Chomsky. I'm sure he's a closet Belinda supporter.