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?
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.3/04
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- 21
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- n-cn-on
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- 9781459309487 1895837081
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- F1058
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- A63 2001eb
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- 1 electronic text (240 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00207880 (OCoLC)614531519 (CaOOCEL)407995
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- Title proper/short title
- How the Harris Tories mismanaged Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Preface 9
- Introduction 11
- Part One: The Background to the Harris Revolution 14
- Chapter 1: Prologue 16
- Take Cover, The Worst Is Yet to Come 16
- Tories Tipped the Cards In Ontario Election 18
- Ontario's 1999 Provincial Election Revisited 21
- Chapter 2: How Did We Get Here? 25
- The Ideology Driving the Common Sense Revolution 25
- The 'Big Lie' Is the Hallmark of Corporate Totalitarianism 37
- With a Good Deficit You Can See Forever 41
- Manufacturing Consent, Canadian-Style 43
- The View From Fraser Peak 46
- Part Two: Re-engineering Ontario 52
- Chapter 3: The True Believers 54
- The True Believers 54
- The Harris Kremlin: Inside Ontario's Revolutionary Politburo 58
- Moving and Shaking the Tory Powerbase 66
- The Man Behind Mike 68
- Queen of the Park 73
- Mr. Fix-it 85
- Chapter 4: The Harris Record 87
- The Omnibus Bill 87
- How the Whiz Kids Screwed Up 89
- 1,460 Days of Destruction 92
- Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! 113
- Monopoly Man: Beyond the Free-Market Rhetoric, is Mike Harris really a Central Planner? 115
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks 124
- Of Caterpillars and Butterflies: Reading Snobelen's Infamous Speech 131
- "The Caterpillar Speech" 135
- Charter Schools: Charting a Course for Social Division 151
- A Lesson From the Protest 154
- Re-engineering and the Harris Agenda 160
- Regina v. Harris: The Case Against the Tories 166
- Part Three: Essential Reading 172
- Chapter 5: The Harris Tories In Context 174
- Welcome To the Brave New World 174
- Is This For Real? 181
- A Short History of Neo-Liberalism 185
- Financial Warfare 195
- The Global Economy: Can It Be Fixed? 207
- Chapter 6: What Can Be Done? 218
- Tips On How to Oppose Corporate Rule 218
- BASIC Democracy 223
- Part Four: Conclusion 230
- The Madness In the Method of the Common Sense Revolution 232
- Index 234
- A 234
- B 234
- C 234
- D 235
- E 235
- F 236
- G 236
- H 236
- I 237
- J 237
- K 237
- L 237
- M 237
- N 238
- O 238
- P 239
- R 239
- S 240
- T 240
- U 240
- V 240
- W 240
- Y 241
