How Ottawa Spends 1990-91: Tracking the Second Agenda

J.L. Granatstein is a professor of History at York University and author
of Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy.

This useful series, published since 1983, presents an ongoing analysis
of the federal government’s taxation and spending policies. The
authors of the individual pieces are all academics, and though they
write like economists, their papers are generally comprehensible. In
this volume, along with 20 pages of data, are useful pieces on the gst,
environment, managing the public service, and farm income programs. This
is the kind of book that Opposition MPs ought to read and mine—there
is some dross, but there is plenty of gold that can enliven question
periods galore.