Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Talking Tax 3
4. We, the Taxpayers 19
5. Canada’s Conservative Tax Structure 46
6. Resistance in the Interwar Years 78
7. Taxation at the Edges of Citizenship 116
8. Honour, Confidence, and Federalism during the Depression 139
9. Warfare, Welfare, and the Mass Income Tax Payer 174
10. New Publics and the Taxman in the 1950s 210
11. Poverty, Bureaucracy, and Taxes 238
12. Reform and Populism in the 1960s 276
13. Self-Interest, Community, and the Evolution of the Citizen-Taxpayer 306
14. Acknowledgments 319
15. Appendix: Tables 323
16. Notes 333
17. Index 423
18. About the Author 439