GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mel Lastman, John Tory, Common Sense Revolution
14 Apr 2015
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Privatize all the things: the harris government was elected in ontario in 1995 and re-elected in 1999, harris resigned as premier of the province in october 2001. In the 6 years he was in power, what has been its common sense revolution (csr) impact on the city of toronto: neoliberalism started roughly with the governments of ronald reagan in the us and margaret. Its main tenets are: personal responsibility and initiative, deregulation, privatization, liberalization of markets, downsizing of governments, govn"ts are untrustworthy, too costly, private sector is better, cutbacks to the welfare state. Provincial governments have been at the forefront of neoliberal restructuring in canada. In ontario the tories came to power on the basis of the csr in 1995: the csr was a textbook case of neoliberal policy strategy and project, harris" supporters were mainly anti-urban, mostly white, anglo males.
