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Chapters: Diane Marleau, Harry Oakes, Mike Walton, Michael Mahonen, Alan Thicke, Mickey Redmond, Bob Plager, Toller Cranston, Willie Marshall, Kurtis Mclean, Sydney Moscoe, Michael Hogan, Joseph Tyrrell, Ralph Backstrom, Larry Hillman, Barclay Plager, Murray Hall, Ed Havrot, William Henry Wright, Robert Manuel, Barbra Amesbury, Dick Duff, Mario Bernardi, Megan Leslie, Bob Murdoch, Garth Joy, Claude Noel, Daryl Kramp, Daren Puppa, Tom Webster, Art Hampson, Wayne Hillman, Don Blackburn, Helen Gardiner, Ann Shipley, Dick Redmond, Earl Heiskala, Dick Vincent, Bill Enouy, Kim Moore, Joanes Rail, Chuck Hamilton, Buddy Boone, Dave Watson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Diane Marleau, PC, MP (born June 21, 1943) is a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Sudbury in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2008, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien. Marleau is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Marleau was born Diane Lebal in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, one of three children raised by a single mother in a low-income household. She was a childhood friend of Marie-Paule Charette, who later became a Senator and president of the Liberal Party. She studied Commerce at the University of Ottawa, but left after three years when she married fellow student Paul Marleau and moved to Sudbury. She worked as the secretary to a medical doctor for five years, prior to the introduction of Medicare. She later said that this experience made her realize the importance of a publicly-funded health system, saying "I was the one who had to collect the bills. It gave me an understanding of what it means when people are obliged to pay to see a doctor." Marleau returned to Laurentian University as a mature student, and completed a Bache...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=912571 ... Read more