Poisoned Chalice: How the Tories Self-Destructed

by David McLaughlin

Poisoned Chalice chronicles the fateful end of the feredral Progressive Conservative government in Ottawa. In a day-by-day account of an election campaign seemingly doomed to disaster Poisoned Chalice covers the strategy, tactics and political machinations that drove the Conservative campaign from the point of view of someone on the bus.

322 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Gregory Klages · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an insider to the events he narrates, McLaughlin includes fascinating snippets of the day-to-day strangeness upon which the Campbell leadership and election campaigns were built. Some of his stories smack of honesty that many of his peers might not have wanted aired publicly, particularly when the PCPC might still have harboured hope to survive into the late 1990s.

For those interested in Canadian politics, Poisoned Chalice also provides a useful set of crib notes on the emerging lights in Canada's then-'conservative' political community, from Hugh Segal to Jean Charest… figures who would in the 2000s be critical points of reference for Canada's political observers.

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