Catch Unconventional Candour Scripted By George Smitherman Presented As File

book had a definite feel of a political memoir and the author came across in my opinion as surprisingly naive in terms of what he expected and what actually happened.

It was a thoughtful and honest recollection,
I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book, George Smitherman tells all about his successes and

failures as a politician in Ontario's legislature and in Toronto's city hall and shares the joys and sorrows of his personal life.




From modest beginnings, George Smitherman rose to become one of the most powerful politicians in Ontario and then plummeted, defeated by one of the most notorious: Rob Ford.
This memoir takes readers on the rollercoaster ride of his career and his personal life as a gay man struggling with the constraints of society and family,



Smitherman offers candid insights into the hardball politics of city hall and the provincial legislature, as well as the Liberal government under Dalton McGuinty, including accomplishments like prescription drug reforms and the green energy plan, and the socalled eHealth, Ornge, and gas plant scandals.
He reveals how he lost the mayoral race but managed to rebound from that defeat, as well from the suicide of his husband,

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