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Regional Development: Canada's Search for Solutions Donald J. Savoie 2nd ed.; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, pp. xii, 341

Bushnell pursues his argument relentlessly by analyzing the reasoning of majority and dissenting opinions in all leading decisions from the time of the Court's establishment up to 1992. As well, he examines commentary on Supreme Court decisions in legal and political science journals, and the popular press. This, together with illustrations from biographical materials on the judges, provides a powerful defence for Bushnell's thesis. Readers may wonder, however, whether the central argument could have been richer and more nuanced. After the initial chapters which set out Bushnell's analytical scheme and review the politics surrounding the establishment of the Supreme Court, the rest of the book consists of case commentaries interspersed with facts and anecdotes relating to the Court's usual state of stagnation and occasional bursts of creativity. Thus, it avails itself to being read in a series of short instalments. Bushnell has been exhaustive in turning up materials on the Court; every few pages will reveal, even to specialists in the field^a new fact or tale about the Court. The Captive Court is a "must read" for political scientists who specialize in law and politics, but it is too long and detailed to be used as a text. It is definitely the most comprehensive history of the Supreme Court of Canada yet produced.