The handover : how bigwigs and bureaucrats transferred Canada's Best publisher and the best part of our literary heritage to a foreign multinational / Elaine Dewar.
The author reveals how our premiere national publisher, McClelland and Stewart, was eventually sold to Random House, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann, for a dollar. Drawing on interviews done with those who engineered the deal, and on documents never before revealed, Dewar tells the story of how a savvy businessman, an accountant, a university president, and three major law firms "danced through the raindrops" to evade a thirty-year-old public policy created to defend Canadian national sovereignty. Part investigation, part memoir by a journalist whose career was shaped by the Investment Canada Act-the federal rules that protect Canada's $40 billion cultural industry-Dewar explores both how the Act was enacted and how it was taken down, piece by piece, deal by deal.
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- ISBN: 9781771961110
- Physical Description: 381 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Castlegar Campus Library | Z 483 M33 D48 2017 (Text)
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