Retiring the Crow Rate
A Narrative of Political Management |
Arthur Kroeger
Afterword John Fraser |
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| "The Holy Crow".... How do you change one of Canada’s most politically sensitive policies? Retiring the Crow Rate is an exacting study in the process of changing an entrenched public policy that many in the West saw as their birthright. It is also a rewarding work of memoir and a tribute to Jean-Luc Pepin’s prowess as an engaging politician. Arthur Kroeger’s deft narration of the events which led to the end of the “The Crow” in the early 1980s also reveals his character as an exemplary public servant. Political scientists and students, western historians, politically engaged Canadians, and those who fondly remember Arthur Kroeger as Canada’s ‘dean of deputy ministers’ will want Retiring the Crow Rate on their bookshelves. |
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| ISBN: 978-0-88864-513-5 |
| Price: CND$ 34.95, USD$ 34.95, £ 18.5 |
| Discount: Trade |
| Subject: Political Science/Agriculture/Memoir |
| Publication Date: May 2009 |
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"The book is really a story of political and public negotiation and participation, a multi-year process of openness, transparency and results that present-day governments could well learn from. There were all the obvious interests: rampant regionalism and a distrust of Ottawa and central Canada; provincial governments of similar and different political stripes than the federal government; special Western interests that were divided between those who were prepared to consider change and those who refused to countenance it; and political intrigue at the federal level as the Minister was regularly undercut by Western Liberal party colleagues at the Cabinet table and in the Senate." Toby Fyfe, IT in Canada, January 6, 2010 [full review at http://tinyurl.com/yc8nsc6]”
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