Three important book reviews that arrived on newsstands awhile back, but that I’ve only now just noticed online now.
Tag Archives: Sheeple
‘This cuts no ice in Harper’s Ottawa’
Andrew Cohen reviews Garth Turner’s Sheeple.
How rational are voters? A study in contrasts
Economists will tell you that the harmonized tax is sound policy, by replacing the regressive PST with a single, more efficient value-added tax. The consensus on this by informed, unbiased observers; the opposition that does exsist tends to come from the ignorant or the self-interested.
The Commons: You bore us, Mr. Ignatieff
After initial civilities, the House erupts—making a ‘Sheeple’ proud
What Garth heard
The most entertaining parts of Sheeple, Garth Turner’s awkwardly titled account of his most recent time in politics, are almost definitely the previously undisclosed bits of private conversation and internal discussion Turner claims to have been party to. If only because truly candid, available-for-public-consumption comment from a politician is otherwise so rare.