1. Prologue: reflections on a Royal Commission -- 2. Vision: the new economy in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 3. Reality: the system and the people -- 4. Appointment and demotion -- 5. Bureaucratic obstruction -- 6. Battling back: from frontal attack to guerrilla warfare -- 7. The rise and fall of ENL and the enterprise network -- 8. Battling the federal system: income-security reform -- 9. An attampted coup and the new regional economic development -- 10. The purge of the ERC -- 11. Victory: a new paradigm for development -- 12. Conclusion: what is to be done?
Summary
Appointed head of Newfoundland's Economic Recovery Commission, House was struck by the unyielding strength of the bureaucratic barriers of government. A testament to the difficulty of fighting the tide of political and bureaucratic power in Canada
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ([p. 283]-288) and index
