Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Foreword xvii
6. Introduction 3
7. Policy and Partisanship on the Campaign Trail: Mulroney Works His Wonder, Twice 16
8. Debts Paid and Debts Owed: The Legacy of Mulroney’s Economic Policies¹ 42
9. Free Trade and Brian Mulroney’s Economic Legacy 61
10. Building or Severing the Bonds of Nationhood?: The Uncertain Legacy of Constitution Making in the Mulroney Years 80
11. Out of the Blue: The Mulroney Legacy in Foreign Policy 113
12. Better Late Than Never: Defence during the Mulroney Years 132
13. Governing through Shifting Social-Policy Regimes: Brian Mulroney and Canada’s Welfare State 164
14. Contained and Redefined: Women’s Issues in the Mulroney Era 178
15. Brian Mulroney and Intergovernmental Relations: The Limits of Collaborative Federalism¹ 205
16. Brian Mulroney and the West 225
17. Mulroney and a Nationalist Quebec: Key to Political Realignment in Canada? 250
18. Dream Catching Mulroney Style: Aboriginal Policy and Politics in the Era of Brian Mulroney 294
19. Beyond the Blue Horizon: The Strength of Conservative Northern-Development Policy in the Mulroney Years¹ 339
20. The Mulroney Government and Canadian Cultural Policy 357
21. Brian Mulroney and the Environment 381
22. Governing from the Centre: Reflections on the Mulroney Cabinet 393
23. The Complexity of Brian Mulroney: A Reflection 417
24. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Perspective 424
25. Index 435