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Stampede!: The Rise of the West and Canada's New Power Elite [Hardcover]

Gordon Pitts (Author)
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Imagine a future for Canada where Alberta is the corporate and cultural kingpin, Ontario is on the ropes, and Quebec is almost irrelevant. Not so long ago, all these scenarios would have been considered ludicrous.

But as bestselling business writer Gordon Pitts documents in this fascinating and brilliantly illuminating new book, they are now within the realm of possibility as corporate clout, political influence, and population shift dramatically from East to West. This westward push of power has been the story of Canada over the past one hundred years, as first Halifax then Montreal and Toronto assumed dominance. Soon, however, Calgary and Edmonton will take command of the financial and corporate landscape.

Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada?s New Power Elite speculates on how all this might happen; the people who could make it happen; and how those people became players in this stampede of power to Alberta. Above all, Stampede! is about business leadership and how it is changing right across the country. It zeroes in on the corporate leaders in Alberta who will set the business and social agenda in Canada for decades to come. For Canadians outside Alberta, this is an introduction to their new bosses. But the story includes deeper portraits of national beneficiaries and victims of this shift. It documents winners and losers from across the country, from the wannabe Albertans in Newfoundland, to the entrenched family fortunes of Quebec inc., and the manufacturers and bankers of Central Canada, who are facing unprecedented challenges to their wealth and authority.

The West has been in this position before: seemingly poised on the edge of greatness in the 1970s, only to see it snatched away by plunging oil prices and?in the view of many?a federal government controlled by Eastern Canadian interests. The West is keenly sensitive to this possibility. It is practically a canon of faith for Albertans to quote that famous bumper sticker, ?Please Lord, give us another oil boom and we promise we won?t piss it away this time.?

They got their wish. And as Gordon Pitts chronicles in this page-turning biography of Canada?s new power elite, this time they may not piss it away so easily.

About the Author

GORDON PITTS is a bestselling author, journalist and features writer for The Globe and Mail's Report on Business, focusing on management, entrepreneurship and family business. In 1989 he was a press fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, during which time he wrote his first book, Storming the Fortress, a finalist for the National Business Book Award in 1990. In the Blood: Battles to Succeed in Canada's Family Businesses, was a finalist for the National Business Book Award in 2000. His third book, Kings of Convergence:The Fight for Control of Canada's Media, was also a finalist, in 2003, as was The Codfathers: Lessons of the Atlantic Business Elite, in 2006. Gordon Pitts and his wife live in Toronto.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Every Canadian interested in our economic future should read this!, Mar 31 2011
This review is from: Stampede!: The Rise of the West and Canada's New Power Elite (Hardcover)
The working title - "How the West HAS Won" - defines this book. A surprisingly easy read, entertainingly written by a highly credible author, it tells the story of how Western Canada, starting with Alberta and spreading east to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, are evolving into "Have" provinces (unfortunately) concurrent with waning of the industries that have historically supported Ontario & Quebec. Well-researched, including interviews with the fascinating people who have driven Western Canada's economic rise, this book should be read, re-read, shared and discussed by every Canadian. The 11 proposals made by the author in the final chapter warrant special deliberation by citizens and governments. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to everyone living in Western Canada to understand how we got here and where we're going next, and to anyone in Central Canada who wishes to do business with the West!
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