The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics

Abstract

Preface: The Joy of Winning / ix Acknowledgments / xiii Introduction: Party Systems and Liberal Leaders / 3 Pierre Trudeau: Victory, Fall, and Recovery 1974 The Liberal Party and Pierre Trudeau: The Jockey and the Horse / 31 1979 The Government's Defeat, the Party's Decline, and the Leader's (Temporary) Fall / 51 1980 Hiding the Charisma: Low-Bridging the Saviour / 87 John Turner: From Disappointment to Despair 1984 The Dauphin and the Doomed: John Turner's Debacle / 109 1988 Election or Referendum? Disoriented in Defeat / 137 Jean Chretien: Power without Purpose 1993 Yesterday's Man and His Blue Grits: Backwards into Jean Chretien's Future / 161 1997 Securing Their Future Together / 180 2000 The Liberal Threepeat: The Multi-System Party in the Multi-Party System / 206 Paul Martin: Saved By the Far Right 2004 Disaster and Recovery: Paul Martin As Political Lazarus / 237 Conclusion The Liberal Party As Hegemon: Straddling Canadian History / 265 Appendix / 285 Notes / 291 Bibliography / 316 Index / 325