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About the Authors

Sylvia LeRoy is currently a Master's student in the department of political science at the University of Calgary.  Her research interests include judicial politics and Canadian public policy.  Her thesis explores the public policy effects of the Supreme Court's involvement in constitutional politics.  Sylvia received her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Western Ontario.

Barry Cooper, a fourth generation Albertan, was educated at Shawinigan Lake School, UBC and Duke University. He taught at Bishop's University, McGill and York University before coming to the University of Calgary in 1981.  He has published extensively in the area of political philosophy and Canadian public policy. His recent scholarly works include Sins of Omission: Shaping the News at CBC TV (1994) and Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science (1999).  In 1991 he wrote, with David Bercuson, the controversial best seller Deconfederation: Canada without Quebec, and in the fall of 1994 they published a sequel, Derailed: The Betrayal of the National Dream, and have written weekly columns for the Calgary Sun, the Globe and Mail, and currently write a weekly column for the Calgary Herald. Most recently he wrote (with Mebs Kanji) "Governing in Post-Deficit Times: Alberta in the Klein Years" (2000). He has received the Konrad Adenauer Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, a Killam Research Fellowship.  He is a Fraser Institute Senior Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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