books.google.ca - MacKinnon, Canada's first female finance minister, provides keen observations on how personalities and shared regional perspectives cut across party affiliations in the evolution of federal-provincial deliberations on managing the debt crisis. Although initially opposed to the radical cuts and downloading...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Minding_the_Public_Purse.html?id=Sz58TJizPAoC&q=finance+ministers&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMinding the Public Purse