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1998., Viking Call No: 336.71 M173c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the past four years, the Chretien government has slashed our cherished social programs more deeply than Brian Mulroney's Tories ever dared. We were told that Canada's deficit problems left no alternative; international financial markets would cut us off if we didn't start slashing. We did as we were told, and the deficit has all but disappeared. Yet now that we've reached this deficit-free nirvana -- the point at where we were told the world would once again be our oyster -- there are certain things we apparently still can't have, such as jobs and social programs.The popular belief is that we can't have these things because of factors beyond our control --because globalization and technology have left us powerless to acheive them. But in this provocative book, Linda McQuaig argues that we are not really powerless. She shows that the international community in fact has the tools to regulate the world financial system in a way that would harness its enormous energy to our collective advantage. This was done before -- for three prosperous decades after the Second World War -- and can be done again. If anything, advances in computer technology would actually make the regulation of capital easier now.This book challenges one of the most widely held beliefs of our time. And it shows how, if we stopped buying into the cult of impotence, we could create a new order that would put the rights of people before the rights of capital.
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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."--
