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c2010., Adult, Thomas Allen Call No: Fic MacS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A gifted, inspiring and wildly popular Prime Minister, Laurier is equally devoted to his quiet, faithful wife Zoe and his ambitious charismatic lover Emilie Lavergne. The story is told through the eyes of these remarkable women - friends who are also rivals for Laurier's heart. Both must contend with the dark contradictions in his nature as he professes to be committed to each of them while uniting a divided nation."--Inside front cover.
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1996., Stoddart ; Distributed in the United States by General Distribution Services, Inc. Call No: Bio L385l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2017., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 336.7109 H434t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Carleton library series Volume: 240.Summary Note: "What if Canadian history was actually about the money? In 1867, Canadians wrote themselves a new constitution because they needed a new tax deal. Confederation was not just about the taxes, but it was never not about the taxes, and the founding principles of 'Peace, Order, and Good Government' should be reconsidered accordingly. Modern Canada, like Britain, France, and the United States, was born of a tax revolt. But in Canada, George Brown's tax revolt became John A. Macdonald's tax coup: a quasi-imperial fiscal federalism that successfully withstood half a century's worth of popular agitation before it began to unravel. This book describes how politics in Canada became social politics between 1867 and 1917. Canada was constructed in 1867 amidst fierce debates about fair taxation and reconstructed in 1917 amidst even fiercer ones. What did fairness mean to Canadians? That was always a 'who' question as well as a 'what' question. Some people demanded fairness for their region, others demanded fairness for their race, and still others rewrote fairness to reflect changing understandings of wealth, poverty, and land ownership. Successive chapters provide detailed case studies of those local debates and then recount how the new ideas gradually infiltrated and transformed federal politics. But the old regime did not die quietly. It fought bitterly for its clientelist, regressive fiscal federalism and the Canadian people paid a terrible price for their tax reforms. The story of that struggle has never been more timely."--
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2011., General, Penguin Group (Canada) Call No: QWF Bio L384p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary Canadians.Summary Note: Everyone knows that Wilfrid Laurier was a great prime minister, an astonishing speaker, and a survivor. But nobody has looked at him as more than a mythological figure for a very long time. André Pratte, chief editorial writer of La Presse, uncovers Laurier's full complexity amid the charged political circumstances of the early 20th century. Laurier tried to unite a country deeply divided in the wake of the First World War, grappling with the thorny questions of minority rights, multiple cultures, and regional tensions. A superb oratorhis defence of Louis Riel established him as perhaps Canada's greatest speakerhe talked to his listeners as if they were as intelligent and well-read as he. Pratte reveals a Laurier who did not have to create a special political strategy in order to deal with the complexities of Canada. His personality, in and of itself, was a mirror of that complexity. Pratte's Laurier affirms our long and stable history, while recognizing that events are never predictable. Like Laurier, great leaders must accept both to govern Canada successfully.
