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'Honest Enough to Be Bold': The Life and Times of Sir James Pliny Whitney

'Honest Enough to Be Bold': The Life and Times of Sir James Pliny Whitney

W. Humphries, Charles

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Political BiographiesCanadian HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1487591888
ISBN13: 9781487591885
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1985
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

On a promise of 'Clean, Uncorrupt, and Incorruptible Government, ' James Pliny Whitney marked the end of an era of Liberal rule that had lasted for over three decades, and introduced to the province a new, 'progressive' brand of conservatism.

As this lively biography demonstrates, Whitney was a gruff and forceful leader. He had a keen understanding of the social and technological forces that were changing Ontario so dramatically in the early twentieth century; he also understood, better than the Liberals, the political implications of those forces. The policies of his government extended to hydroelectric power, bilingual schools, northern development, automobile regulation, temperance (he dealt with the advocates of prohibition 'through gritted teeth'), imperial unity, housing, workmen's compensation, and the suffrage movement. (In a lapse from progressiveness, he argued that women should not be exposed to 'the unlovely influence of party politics.') He had a lasting influence on higher education in the province through the establishment of a Board of Governors for the University of Toronto, then unmistakably the provincial university of Ontario, and the provision of tenure for its full professors.

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