The Government and Politics of Ontario. 5th ed.

Randall White is the author of Voice of Region: On the Long Journey to
Senate Reform in Canada and Global Spin: Probing the Globalization
Debate, and the co-author of Toronto Women.

The first edition of this political science reader, edited by retired
Ontario politician, Donald C. MacDonald, was published in 1975. With the
fourth edition of 1990, the baton was passed to University of Toronto
professor Graham White, who remains in charge for this edition. With its
collection of 22 articles on various subjects, it is the closest thing
we have to an authoritative textbook on the government and politics of
Canada’s most populous province.

As White notes in his preface, the most recent past has seen some
“remarkable changes” in the real world of Ontario politics. Their
“identification and evaluation” is a “principal concern” of this
book, which includes articles by Sid Noel, Chuck Rachlis, Thomas Walkom,
Robert Williams, Nelson Wiseman, David Wolfe, and Peter Woolstencroft.
Remarkable potential changes in the larger world of Canadian politics
are the subject of a well-considered essay by David Cameron and Richard
Simeon entitled “Ontario in Confederation: The Not-So-Friendly
Giant.”

Despite the recent remarkable changes it addresses, the book continues
to exude a deadpan gray restraint that some would say is characteristic
of Canada’s most populous province.