About the Author

MARY JANIGAN is a journalist who has written extensively about Canadian public policy, including politics and economics, for the Toronto Star, Maclean's and the Globe and Mail. She has won the prestigious Hy Solomon Award for policy analysis, and the National Newspaper Award for her clause-by-clause scrutiny of proposed Constitution changes. She has never lost her curiosity, and she has always wanted to understand how the blunders and triumphs of the past complicate the present. She lives in Toronto, but travels as much as she can, at the flicker of a passport.

Reviews

LONGLISTED 2014 – RBC Taylor Prize

"One of the first authoritative looks at the struggle over resources with the Rest of Canada that has plagued the West since the mid-19th century. This is an important book that explains so much of today's debates."
—The Honourable Peter Lougheed, former premier of Alberta
 
"Mary Janigan sheds some light on just how deeply the resentment underlying [the Conservatives' carbon-tax] strategy runs in her new book. . . . As long as Conservatives believe there are votes to be won, it's worth poking ancient regional wounds. After all, as Janigan all too ably demonstrates, this is the Canadian way."
—Canadian Business
 
"A necessary and timely addition to the ongoing debate around the current rise of the West and its conservative brand of politics."
—Toronto Star