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Which Reminds Me... : A Memoir /
Mitchell Sharp is best remembered as one of the most unpolitical of politicians - a public servant somehow co-opted into the political sphere without ever acquiring a partisan patina. In this engaging memoir, Sharp contemplates the unexpected turns of his public life, combining narrative with reflec...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Foreword by the Honourable Jean Chretien; Preface; 1 From Winnipeg to Ottawa, 1911-1942; Parents; First full-time job, age fourteen; The struggle for higher education; Religion; Music; Learning to work; Postgraduate studies at the University of Manitoba; Winnipeg in the pre-war years; The London School of Economics; Grain-trade economist with James Richardson and Sons; Western politics; Offer from Ottawa; 2 In the Department of Finance, 1942-1950; The Department of Finance in wartime; Fiscal and monetary policy; Ilsley and Clark; The price ceiling; The Wheat Committee of cabinet
- Closing the Winnipeg wheat marketTommy Douglas versus Ottawa; Revision of the Bank Act; Union with Newfoundland; Douglas Abbott becomes minister of finance; Decontrol of prices and rents; Varied assignments; Post-war recruitment; Veterans' rehabilitation and old-age pensions; The Economic Policy Division and federal-provincial relations; Housing; 3 In the Department of Trade and Commerce, 1950-1958; Learning to work with C.D. Howe; Howe and the Canadian Wheat Board; International wheat negotiations; Howe and the Liberal leadership52The Korean War; Visit to the Soviet Union, 1955
- The first Canada-Soviet trade agreementVisit to Japan, 1956; The GATT; The TransCanada Pipeline; Cuban sugar; The Japanese trade agreement; The Brussels World Fair; Howe is defeated and Churchill becomes minister; The 'hidden report'; Some curious events; Resignation; Relations with the media; Reflections on the role of the mandarins; 4 In Private Business, 1958-1963; Vice-president of Brazilian Traction; The Donwood Foundation; The Kingston Conference; Entry into politics; The choice of Eglinton and the 1962 campaign; Coffee parties; Eglinton at the centre; The U.N. Coffee Conference
- Political columnist5 Minister of Trade and Commerce, 1963-1965; Former civil servants become ministers; How Pearson ran his cabinet; Parliamentary secretaries; How to use ministerial staff; Agenda for a minority government; The Gordon budget; Trade promotion and trade policy; Nuclear weapons; The Great Blackout; Expo 67; Wheat sales; The Canadian flag; The 1965 try for majority government; 6 Minister of Finance, 1965-1968; From Trade to Finance; Keynesian budgeting; Why deficits later rose; The Carter Commission; Preparing budgets; Federal-provincial financial arrangements
- The 1966 revision of the Bank ActThe Mercantile Bank case; The 1966 debate on economic nationalism; Relations with Walter Gordon; The introduction of medicare; Gordon returns to cabinet; The Bank of Canada Act; Deposit insurance; The Order of Canada; Party leadership; The defeat of the 1968 budget bill; Should I withdraw?; 7 Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1968-1974; I. The Domestic Side of Foreign Policy; Replacing Paul Martin; The principle of collegiality; Trudeau in cabinet; Trudeau as party leader; Organization of the department; The attack by Trudeau on diplomats