Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. PART ONE. Getting Established
6. 1. The McMurtry Family Tree 3
7. 2. School and Sports 17
8. 3. Student Days at the University of Toronto 31
9. 4. Preparing for a Career in Law at Osgoode Hall 48
10. 5. Articling Student 61
11. PART TWO. The Practice of Law
12. 6. Early Law Career 73
13. 7. Mentor, Arthur Maloney 89
14. 8. Entering the Political Arena 117
15. 9. Family Life 135
16. 10. Member of the Kitchen Cabinet 145
17. 11. The By-election, Community Service, and the Law 156
18. PART THREE. Attorney General of Ontario
19. 12. Stepping into the Attorney General’s Role 175
20. 13. Cabinet Minister with a Law Reform Agenda 193
21. 14. Attorney General versus the National Hockey League 213
22. 15. Racism and Religion 227
23. 16. Violence on the Highways, on the Newsstands, and as Entertainment 244
24. 17. A Mixture of Challenges Involving Marijuana, Ed Ziemba, Francis Fox, and Amway Corporation 250
25. 18. The Osgoode Society for the Writing of Canadian Legal History 262
26. 19. Solicitor General and the Mississauga Derailment 268
27. 20. The Challenging Cases of Susan Nelles and Henry Morgentaler 278
28. 21. The Constitution and the Patriation Case in the Supreme Court of Canada 290
29. 22. Negotiations over the Patriation of the Canadian Constitution 308
30. 23. René Lévesque 322
31. 24. Israel 329
32. 25. Travel Abroad to India and Pakistan 336
33. 26. Northern Justice, Aboriginal Art, and My Own Painting 345
34. 27. Reflections on the Davis Government and Life as a Constituency Politician 354
35. 28. Candidate for the Leadership of the PC Party of Ontario 365
36. PART FOUR. At the Court of St James and Home Again
37. 29. My New Life as High Commissioner in London 381
38. 30. The High Commissioner’s Work 398
39. 31. My Years with Blaney, McMurtry and the Canadian Football League 418
40. 32. Sport as a Development Tool in the Commonwealth 434
41. PART FIVE. Sixteen Years as a Judge
42. 33. Appointment to the Bench, 1991 443
43. 34. Chief Justice of Ontario 455
44. 35. The Role of Judges in Relation to the Rule of Law, Independence, and the Charter of Rights 478
45. 36. Visits to Cuba 489
46. PART SIX. Retirement
47. 37. Life after Judicial Retirement 499
48. 38. Reflections on My Life 523
49. Index 535