The handover: how bigwigs and bureaucrats transferred Canada's best publisher and the best part of our literary heritage to a foreign multinational
Affaires et économie, Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
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; explores both how the Investment Canada Act was enacted and how it was taken down, piece by piece, deal by deal. 2017.