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"The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, if it is built, will be the largest single development project ever undertaken in the Western World. It will alter forever the nature of the world's largest remaining unexploited river valley. It will also change, forever, the lives of the Canadians who inhabit that river valley - Dene, Inuit, and "other".

The Past and Future Land is a book about those people, their land and the proposed pipeline. It is also a book by those people, because their voices are heard here just as they have been heard by Mr. Justice Thomas Berger whose Inquiry into the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline has produced one of the most important, and most exciting public dialogues in Canadian history.

Martin O'Malley is a Winnipeg-born writer whose career in journalism has ranged from delivering the Winnipeg Tribune on Wellington Crescent to winning a Southam Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Toronto. He is now with the Toronto Globe & Mail as the paper's senior op-ed writer who also handled the in-depth features and a regular Monday sports column. As one of Canada's most brilliant and widely-respected journalists, he has written from and about every province and territory in the country.

O'Malley followed the Inquiry from the beginning and in this brilliant and moving book he offers a sharply etched portrait of land and people, partly in the words of the people themselves, partly in his own words.

Read The Past and the Future Land. It will not leave you unmoved. It may change the kind of person you are."--Back cover.