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E.A. Heaman teaches history at McGill University and is the author of Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917. David Tough teaches in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University.
Who Pays for Canada? is a welcome collection of diverse perspectives on the idea and practice of tax fairness. There is nothing quite like it in the literature of any country. Kris Inwood, University of Guelph and co-editor of Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources Who Pays for Canada? provides a refreshing way of thinking about taxation, and it provides some deep and useful insights into the necessary work of making taxation not just fairer, but more transparent and reflective of needs and demands of all members of society. This book, and the historiographical interjection from which it springs, should not only be read by historians, but all humanists and social scientists who are engaged with the work of creating a better society. Taxes are, after all, and as they say, the price of civilization. Histoire sociale/Social History At its core, Who Pays for Canada? explores the nature of tax fairness and the challenges of tax reform in a thoroughly interdisciplinary way. Twenty-three scholars contribute seventeen chapters on taxation questions that face every order of government, span centuries of Canadian history, and build on insight from several fields of knowledge. In the process, it reveals the incredibly complex set of issues that tax policy must confront. Canadian Historical Review
