The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 de Geoff Meggs, Rod Mickleburgh - 2012-10-15

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" At his first cabinet meeting, Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table, and skids the length of the room. "Are we here for a good time or a long time?" he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what was easy and conventional. He set the tone for a government that changed the face of the province. During the next three years, he and his team passed more legislation in a shorter time than any government before or since. A university or college student graduating today in BC may have been born years after Barrett's defeat but could attend a Barrett daycare, live on a farm in Barrett's Agricultural Land Reserve, be rushed to hospital in a provincial ambulance created by Barrett's government, and attend college in a community institution founded by his government. The continuing polarization of BC politics also dates back to Barrett--the Fraser Institute and the right-wing economic policies it preaches… Leer más