| Description |
1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; 1 Coronation to Revolution; 2 A House Divided; 3 No Cents and Common Sense; 4 Out of the Smoke; 5 Don't Underestimate This Guy; 6 Beyond the Big Blue Machine; 7 Just Call Me Janet; 8 Dial 1-800-668-MIKE; 9 Sex, Half-truths, and Videotape; 10 Mussel Power; 11 Hey, Presto! Reform Vanishes; 12 This Bus Was a Gas; 13 Closet Politics; Illustrations; 14 Trust Me, I Can Do It; 15 With the Greatest of Respect; 16 The Young and the Hip; 17 A Blue Lady in a Red Outfit; 18 Shout at Your Spouse, Lose the Election; 19 Playing the Percentages; 20 The Dreaded Red Book |
| Summary |
It wasn't so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario's political landscape in the spring of 1995 -- it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike harris and a new breed of Tories. Gone were the pinestripes and the cigar-chomping backroom boys of the forty-two years of Tory rule. These Tories were young, hip, and they were riding the wave of their Common Sense Revolution, a platform launched a year earlier. Still, there were only a few who thought the PCs stood a chance of winning the Ontario provincial election. Though Bob Rae's NDP government was foundering, Ly |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ontario. Legislative Assembly -- Elections, 1995
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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
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Ontario. Legislative Assembly fast |
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Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario fast |
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Political campaigns -- Ontario
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HISTORY -- General.
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Elections
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Political campaigns
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Politics and government
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Verkiezingen.
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Conservative Party (Canada)
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Ontario -- Politics and government
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Ontario
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781554882793 |
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1554882796 |
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9781459718456 |
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1459718453 |
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9786611962517 |
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6611962514 |
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1281962511 |
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9781281962515 |
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