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“The current system is not working”
From: The Coutts Diaries
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In this chapter, Graham examines the political fallout from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s December 28, 1975, CTV interview, in which he challenged the free-market system’s handling of inflation and unemployment (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudea’s prinicpal secretary).
Contributors
Ron Graham
Ron Graham is an author and journalist based in Toronto. He has written extensively over many decades on Canadian politics, history, religion, business, and culture. His books include One-Eyed Kings, God's Dominion, The French Quarter, and The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, the Gang of Eight, and the Fight for Canada. In addition to his own writings, he edited two volumes of memoirs by Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien; The Essential Trudeau, with Rt. Hon. Pierre Elliott Trudeau; and the autobiography of Hon. Bill Graham. He has served as a president of PEN Canada, a trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum, and a director of various arts and educational foundations. His latest book, The Informal Imperialist, examines the photographs of a British agent at the court of King Mindon in Mandalay, Burma, 1861-1879.
