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245 1. $a The handover $d Texte imprimé $e how bigwigs and bureaucrats transferred Canada's best publisher and the best part
of our literary heritage to a foreign multinational $f Elaine Dewar
250 .. $u 1 $a First edition
260 .. $a Windsor, Ont. $c Biblioasis $d [2017]
280 .. $a 381 pages $d 23 cm
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-374) and index
330 .. $a "In her controversial new book, Elaine Dewar, named among 'Canada's best muckrakers,'
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
