Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog

Where are we, three years into Ontario's Common Sense Revolution? Hospitals
and schools are closing by the hundreds; thousands of nurses and teachers and
other workers are jobless; schools are in chaos; pregnant welfare mothers have
lost their nutrition allowance because the Premier thinks they'll spend it on
beer; Toronto the megacity is collapsing under the weight of its own
amalgamated administration; the Premier's last cultural experience was Mr.
Silly; the rich are getting larger tax cuts while the province won't spring to
bury the homeless; welfare recipients deserve to be fingerprinted, but
motorists running red lights shouldn't have their pictures taken because it
would violate their privacy. What can you do but laugh? That's the approach
taken by Linwood Barclay, who's been skewering the current occupiers of
Queen's Park in his Toronto Star column since they took office. His new book
Mike Harris Made Me Eat My Dog comes just in time; it's an informed and
viciously satirical look at the Ontario Tories, who've polarized public
opinion unlike any other government in the province's history. Chapters
include a look at the so-called Whiz Kids advising the Premier: ``There's
Tiffany, age 6, whose political credo is `Mine! Mine!''' Find out what happens
at a meeting of the Tory cabinet's book club. Learn how the homeless can help
you get a big-screen tv, and discover 10 fun things to do, in your final
moments, while waiting in the emergency room. This book will become
increasingly relevant, and a much needed stress-reliever, as Ontario
approaches its next election.