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Eisler offers sharp look into Saskatchewan politics in new book, From Left to Right

As Dale Eisler demonstrates in this deft and informative study, From Left to Right: Saskatchewan's Political and Economic Transformation, Saskatchewan has never really been a one-party province. There has always been an opposition to get angry with, and it has always been the federal government. For the past 60 years or so, more often than not, the federal government has meant the Liberal Party. The one-party province has a dance partner.
Dale Eisler is a wise mind. In the first part of his career, he was an influential and widely respected journalist on the Prairies. In the second, he was an influential and widely respected public servant in the nation's capital.
The howl of extremism intensifies, rattling windowpanes from the Privy Council Office to Bay Street, and the elites who occupy these high offices don't know what to make of it, much less what to do about it. They are as surprised as anyone. As recently as the 2021 federal election—last summer—t...

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