At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room. Are we here for a good time or a long time? he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what was easy and conventional.
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At his first cabinet meeting Premier Dave Barrett takes off his shoes, leaps onto the leather-inlaid cabinet table and skids the length of the room. Are we here for a good time or a long time? he roars. His answer: a good time, a time of change, action, doing what was needed and right, not what was easy and conventional.
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As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (CAD) 1st printing. No makrings, as New in as New dust jacket. Boards, 368pp, index. B&W photos From the jacket: Dave Barrett set the tone for a government that changed the face of the province. During the next three years, he and his team passed more legislation in a shorter time than any government before or since. A university or college student graduating today in BC may have been born years after Barrett's defeat, but could attend a Barrett daycare, live on a farm in Barrett's Agricultural Land Reserve, be rushed to hospital in a provincial ambulance created by Barrett's government and attend college in a community institution founded by his government. The continuing polarization of BC politics also dates back to Barrett--the Fraser Institute and the right-wing economic policies it preaches are as much a legacy of the Barrett years as the ALR. (1.8 JM 1005.
