The Mayor of Tent City
Place of publication: April 1st 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Notes: Canada's internationally acclaimed social safety net, born out of the Dirty Thirties, is challenged by the political and economic times at the end of the 20th century. Reaganomics, Thatcherism and Bush politics have nothing over the Bennett years (1930-35) when, as Canadian legend Pierre Berton explains, paying off the massive CPR debt was done at the expense of the needy.

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