Publisher's Synopsis
Senator Pat Carney is one of Canada's most innovative and adventurous personalities. From her birth in Shanghai, China, she details her personal and extraordinary professional life. Carney provides us with an inside look at newspapers, business, and politics, and the many fascinating people she has known over the years. She chronicles the rowdy world of journalists in Vancouver in the 1960s. She describes how she established her successful economic consulting firm in Yellowknife, revealing her love and concern for Canada's north. She writes passionately about the hazards of being both a politician and a mother. We learn of her mixed feelings regarding the Free Trade Agreement, which she helped negotiate. And we go behind the scenes to see the inner workings of political life in our Canada's capital.
