Sneak peek: What brought Mike Harris down
And fundraising wars
Presented by Ontario’s Universities
ABOVE THE FOLD
BOOK EXCERPT — DEEP CUT: I got a special sneak peek at a new book Queen’s Park watchers will want to crack over the holidays: The Harris Legacy: Reflections on a Transformational Premier.
War stories: From publisher Sutherland House, the must-read zeroes in on former Tory premier MIKE HARRIS’s Common Sense Revolution and features words from heavyweight politicos including ALISTER CAMPBELL, DAVID FRUM, TERENCE CORCORAN, WILL FALK, SEAN SPEER, GINNY ROTH, HOWARD LEVITT, WILL STEWART, GORDON MILLER, GUY GIORNO, HUGH SEGAL, DAVID HERLE, JAIME WATT and more.
Here, a chapter penned by WILLIAM ROBSON — CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute and proponent of education reform — on Harris’s handling of the contentious education file.
“AN EDUCATION REPORT CARD…
EDUCATION WAS A HUGE AREA OF FOCUS, change, and controversy under Ontario’s Progressive Conservative governments from 1995 to 2003. It had a prominent place in the…