Alien Invasion : How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario:How the Harris Tories Mismanages Ontario
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
1 online resource (241 pages)
9781897414873, 1897414870
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Background to the Harris Revolution
Chapter 1: Prologue
Take Cover, The Worst Is Yet to Come
Tories Tipped the Cards In Ontario Election
Ontario's 1999 Provincial Election Revisited
Chapter 2: How Did We Get Here?
The Ideology Driving the Common Sense Revolution
The 'Big Lie' Is the Hallmark of Corporate Totalitarianism
With a Good Deficit You Can See Forever
Manufacturing Consent, Canadian-Style
The View From Fraser Peak
Part Two: Re-engineering Ontario. Chapter 3: The True Believers
The True Believers
The Harris Kremlin: Inside Ontario's Revolutionary Politburo
Moving and Shaking the Tory Powerbase
The Man Behind Mike
Queen of the Park
Mr. Fix-it
Chapter 4: The Harris Record
The Omnibus Bill
How the Whiz Kids Screwed Up
1,460 Days of Destruction
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
Monopoly Man: Beyond the Free-Market Rhetoric, is Mike Harris really a Central Planner?
Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Of Caterpillars and Butterflies: Reading Snobelen's Infamous Speech. ""The Caterpillar Speech""
Charter Schools: Charting a Course for Social Division
A Lesson From the Protest
Re-engineering and the Harris Agenda
Regina v. Harris: The Case Against the Tories
Part Three: Essential Reading
Chapter 5: The Harris Tories In Context
Welcome To the Brave New World
Is This For Real?
A Short History of Neo-Liberalism
Financial Warfare
The Global Economy: Can It Be Fixed?
Chapter 6: What Can Be Done?
Tips On How to Oppose Corporate Rule
BASIC Democracy
Part Four: Conclusion. The Madness In the Method of the Common Sense Revolution
Index
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