Dead Centre : Hope, Possibility and Unity for Canadian Progressives

by Heath, Jamey

• ISBN13: 9780470840733
• ISBN10: 0470840730
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-27
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Some say the environment will be this century's health-care conundrum. Canadians are waking up from our Liberal hegemony mirage and finding out that we're not the progressive country they told us we were. And now, a country that stayed out of Iraq and embraced equal marriage has a neo-conservative PM-and a Liberal emissions record that's worse than that of George W. Bush.

Author Biography

Jamey Heath has has a front-row seat to changing progressive politics, both inside and outside political parties. On Parliament Hill, he was research and communications director for the NDP caucus after working in both the environmental and labour movements. he was a regular commentator on politics on television and in print while working for the NDP. He now lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Minority Parliament and the 2006 Election
To and From a Dingy Room	p. 11
"The Budget's Priorities are Conservative Ones"	p. 25
Scandal Costs Us the Bloc	p. 33
Omigod!	p. 43
Tom d'Aquino Asks for His Money Back	p. 51
The Pantomime Victory	p. 57
Pressure from Montreal's Gay Village	p. 65
Trudeau and the Troglodytes	p. 73
John A. Macdonald, Rene Levesque and the Race	p. 81
Events in a Progressive Summer	p. 95
Ghosts of Springs Past	p. 101
A Clumsy Dance	p. 115
The Winter Guillotine Falls	p. 123
Class War: Tories versus Tommy	p. 133
Seven Elections that Write Politics' New Rules
The Hegemony Mirage	p. 151
Go West	p. 177
Wrong Kind of Blue State	p. 189
Alberta and the Betamax Lesson	p. 203
The No Logo Divide	p. 217
Andre Boisclair's Global Generation	p. 235
No More Crumbs	p. 249
Rethinking Progressive	p. 265
Appendix	p. 275
Acknowledgements	p. 279
Index	p. 281
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