McNeil biography leaves out impact on health crisis of Ex-Premier’s hard line approach
Although he clearly admires his subject, it would be wrong to call Dan Leger’s recently-published biography of Stephen McNeil a hagiography. To his credit the veteran journalist presents Nova Scotia’s ex-Premier warts and all, albeit while slapping on thick layers of rationalization to conceal the blemishes. Leger argues that McNeil should “be in the mix” in any discussion about “premiers of consequence,” along with other regional leaders like New Brunswick’s Louis Robichaud and Frank McKenna, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Joey Smallwood, Joe Ghiz of P.E.I and – reaching way back – Nova Scotia’s Angus L. Macdonald. Leger’s case for admitting...
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