Books
He was propelled into the public eye as the author of Shredding the Public Interest, a book published in 1997 that accused the Ralph Klein government of unnecessarily cutting funding for public services; Klein responded by accusing Taft of being a communist. The book spent 12 weeks on the Financial Post bestseller list, and was chosen as "Alberta Trade Title of the Year" by the Book Publisher's Association of Alberta. In 2000, Taft co-authored a book with Calgarian journalist Gillian Steward, titled Clear Answers: The Economics and Politics of For-Profit Medicine. In 2006 he authored a book titled Democracy Derailed which details his observations and criticisms of the present government in Alberta.
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