The Art of the Impossible
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- Synopsis
- At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room. "Are we here for a good time or a long time?" he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what was easy and conventional.He set the tone for a government that changed the face of the province. During the next three years, he and his team passed more legislation in a shorter time than any government before or since. A university or college student graduating today in BC may have been born years after Barrett's defeat, but could attend a Barrett daycare, live on a farm in Barrett's Agricultural Land Reserve, be rushed to hospital in a provincial ambulance created by Barrett's government and attend college in a community institution founded by his government. The continuing polarization of BC politics also dates back to Barrett-the Fraser Institute and the right-wing economic policies it preaches are as much a legacy of the Barrett years as the ALR.Dave Barrett remains a unique and important figure in BC's history, a symbol of how much can be achieved in government and a reminder of how quickly those achievements can be forgotten. This lively and well-researched book is the first in-depth study of this most memorable of BC premiers.
- Copyright:
- 2012
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781550176490
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781550175790
- Publisher:
- Harbour Publishing Company, Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 07/24/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Rod Mickleburgh, Geoff Meggs
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
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- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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