Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Part One: Leadership in Question
7. 1. Searching for Leadership 13
8. 2. Clerks and Secretaries to Cabinet: Anatomy of Leadership 41
9. Part Two: Leadership in Transformation
10. 3. Clerk as Révélateur: A Panoramic View 85
11. 4. Capacity, Complexity, and Leadership: Secretaries to Cabinet and Ontario’s Project of Modernization at the Centre 121
12. 5. The Secretary to the Cabinet in Saskatchewan: Evolution of the Role, 1944–2006 161
13. Part Three: Leaders in Action
14. 6. ‘Super Diplomat and Super Expediter’: Wes Bolstad as Cabinet Secretary in Saskatchewan, 1973–9 187
15. 7. Leviathan Awakes: Harry Hobbs and the Rise of Alberta 204
16. 8. Leadership and Province Building: Guy Coulombe in Quebec 222
17. Conclusion: The Options and Futures of Secretaries to Cabinet 237
18. Appendix 243