Change Your Name, Change Your Status. Part Five by Dave Jaffe
"Bland is good," said longtime Ontario premier Tory 'Brampton' Bill Davis. By the mid-1980's the long Conservative rule in Ontario was ending. Yet that didn't bother Arthur Ross.
He was by now a happy very hard working lawyer who moved among some of Ontario's elites. In the federal election of 1988 he supported free trade with the United States while his party's leader John Turner was against it. In that election Ross played no part at all. Yet he remained a federal Liberal while voting Conservative in the election. He didn't tell people how he'd voted.
In any case, Ross was now a genuine member of Canada's upper middle class. His motto might have been, "Change your name, change your social status." It worked for him and it worked for many other successful Canadians too.
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