Not without cause: David Peterson's fall from grace

By Georgette Gagnon and Dan Gagnon, Georgette;Rath

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0002158426
• ISBN13: 9780002158428
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent portrayal of a REALLY bad election

I was surprised at how good this book was. I had to read it for school, but I found it very entertaining, and would rate it as one of the best written informative books I've read in a very long time. It does a great job of explaining a "Worst-Case Scenario" in provincial elections, how a popular government screwed up royally, leading to the most unstable years in Ontario's political history. Not only was it interesting and informative, it was also funny and, had I had more to drink, I might have cried at the "sad" ending! I would definately recommend it to anyone studying or simply interested in Canadian politics.

the sad truth about the Ontario Liberal Party

This brief analysis of the David Peterson government and its rapid downfall is the real story of the Ontario Liberals. Almost perpetually out of power and overshadowed by the perpetual success of their federal cousins, the provincial party has always struggled to be relevant. In the 60's and 70's, Ontario's Liberals were more right wing than the Tories, and they paid for it with a string of election losses. By the 80's, they had clued into Bill Davis's success and tacked left with David Peterson...just in time for the rise of neo-conservatism. Peterson's tax-and-spend style of government, coupled with his own image of arrogance ended his adminstration after just five years. Through the 90's the Liberals struggled to cope with their terrible fall from power (they had won 95 of 130 seats in the 1987 election!). First Lyn MacLeod, then Dalton McGuinty, failed to make their party relevant to Ontarians. This book is just one chapter in the sad history of a party that never really seemed to matter.