Member of the Legislature

Don Mills: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Fixed Endpaper Shows Remnants of Removed Book Pocket; Front, Rear Free Endpapers Show Discolouration From Removal of Adhesive Tape; Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Spine Portion Pulled From Removal of Sticker; Moderately Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. JACKET DRAWING BY: Ed Franklin Copyright The Globe and Mail. JACKET DESIGN BY: Lynn Waghorne. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The author and publisher wish to express their thanks for the following: to The Toronto Star for cartoons by Franklin, Macpherson, Pilsworth and Fons von Woerkom, to The Globe and Mail for cartoons by Franklin and Redford, to The Toronto Sun for cartoons by Donato, to The Windsor Star for cartoons by Roschkov and Donato. The cartoon by the late Al Beaton originally appeared in The Toronto Telegram. CONTENTS: Preface 1. The Beginning 2. The Shot Heard Around Queen's Park 3. The Tories and My Bank Manager 4. The Jails 5. Matthew Dymond 6. How I Harassed a Poor Widow 7. Sleeping MPPs 8. Sneaking into INCO 9. The Workmen's Compensation Board 10. All Speeches Shall be Sung in Tune 11. Victories I Would Regret 12. Leaks 13. The NDP: Not One Happy Family 14. Me and the Mafia 15. Libel 16. Arsenic and Old Tories 17. Shulman's Raiders 18. Liquor 19. The Medical Lab Rip-off 20. More on the Mafia 21. The Future is Here 22. Bill Davis 23. Compensation for the Innocent 24. The Cages 25. Whitby 26. The RCMP Papers 27. Dirty Tricks 28. Wire Taps and Stuffed Ballots 29. The Nutcracker 30. Gordon Carton 31. Crooked Unions 32. Defeats 33. The Silver Mine that Wasn't 34. Phony Votes 35. Allan Grossman 36. Life Insurance 37. The Attorney General Wasn't There 38. Mimico 39. The Happy Hooker 40. Ripping Off the Door 41. Wire Tapping Again 42. The Maid of the Mist 43. Chiropractors 44. I Join the CIA 45. I Bomb the SEC 46. My Poodle and Ma Bell 47. And Still More Wire Tapping 48. Dog Fights 49. More Asbestos 50. Guns, Uranium and the Chinese 51. Would You Like to be Ombudsman? SYNOPSIS: This is Morton Shulman's own fast-moving story of his eight years in politics. It is sharp but full of public concern, opinionated but self-critical, serious in intent but often hilarious in the telling. It reflects perfectly the life-style of its author--there is never a dull moment. During his eight years as a member of the provincial Legislature, Morton Shulman's name was rarely off the front pages. Here Shulman tells the dramatic stories behind the headlines, and the stories that never made the front page. For Shulman, an "unrepentant capitalist" millionaire, the decision to run for the NDP was a chance to get back at the Conservative government that had fired him as Coroner. But it became much more than that, as Shulman, the man who always was approachable, became an unofficial ombudsman for the province and the people. Shulman's career as a Member of the Legislature was as stormy as his record in office as Chief Coroner. He smuggled a camera into the House and took pictures of government members asleep during debars. Disguised as a workman, he walked into the INCO plant at Sudbury and spent the night measuring sulphur dioxide levels which proved that in spite of government inspectors' assurances the pollution levels were dangerously high. He exposed Mafia connections with union leaders, politicians and police, and ended up with a Mafia contract on his life and a full-time police guard. He put on a hard hat and walked unchallenged into the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant to show that there was virtually no security in this potentially dangerous area. All these capers had but one goal--to expose the bureaucratic bungling that affected and sometimes even endangered the lives of the ordinary Canadians who paid the tax bill. One after another he took on the Departments of Labour, Health, Highways, Reform Institutions, Natural Resources, Energy, the Attorney General, Bell Canada and more. His eight years as a Member of the Legislature brought some changes in government policies, Royal Commissions and numerous editorials about the situations he brought to public attention. Sometimes he lost, but the degree of public trust in Morton Shulman brought him national attention. There's never been another Member like Shulman. Morton Shulman was born in Toronto in 1925 and graduated from medicine at the University of Toronto in 1948. He became a coroner in 1952, and was Chief Coroner from 1963 until 1967. He held the High Park seat in the Ontario Legislature for the NDP from 1967 to 1975. Dr. Shulman now hosts his own popular television show "The Shulman File." - and - As a Member of the Legislature, Morton Shulman - Employed private detectives to follow up hundreds of anonymous tips from civil servants that disclosed government incompetence and waste - Revealed racketeering and kickbacks between doctors and medical labs - Witnessed the smuggling of drugs on The Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls - Urged the government to crack down on chiropractic quacks who were billing the health service for the treatment of everything from acne to eye strain - Investigated organized crime and became the object of a $50,000 Mafia contract - Exposed violence and intimidation in the Seamen's International Union - Was sued for $100 million for alienating the affections of a woman he had never met - Danced in The Nutcracker with the National Ballet.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Ed Franklin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.