Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge Dave Snow’s invaluable assistance in the formatting of the files that make up this book and Peter Enman’s excellent copy-editing of my final manuscript. I would also like to thank the University of Calgary School of Public Policy for managing my trust account and financially supporting the publication of this book. Finally, I want to thank the staff at the University of Calgary Press, especially Press Director Brian Scrivener, for their support and encouragement. For any errors of omission or commission, I take full responsibility.

Select parts of this book draw from previously published material. The discussion of the 2011 PC leadership race draws extensively from my 2013 article “Leadership Selection in Alberta, 1992–2011: A Personal Perspective,” Canadian Parliamentary Review 36, no. 2 (2013), pp. 31–38, http://revparl.ca/36/2/36n2_13e_Morton.pdf.

The discussion of the North West Upgrader in chapter 7 is an edited and updated version of the study I published in 2015, “The North West Sturgeon Upgrader: Good Money after Bad?” School of Public Policy Research Papers 7, no. 3 (April 2015), https://www.policyschool.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/north-west-sturgeon-upgrader-morton.pdf.

The discussion of the risks of earlier attempts at economic diversification by governments of Alberta in chapter 7 draws from the study I co-authored with Meredith McDonald in 2015, “The Siren Song of Diversification: Alberta’s Legacy of Loss, 1973–1993,” School of Public Policy Research Papers 8, no. 15 (March 2015), https://www.policyschool.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/siren-song-economic-diversification-morton-mcdonald.pdf.