Twenty years ago governments across Canada adopted-with much ballyhoo-new occupational health and safety laws. Consulted to Death shows how the laws failed to deliver on their promise because, despite their rhetoric, they refused to adequately confront the issue of power in the workplace.

Doug Smith has written or co-written ten books, including How To Tax a Billionaire: Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax Fairness, Consulted to Death: How Canada''s Workplace Health and Safety System Fails Its Workers, and Joe Zucken: Citizen and Socialist, which won the Manitoba Historical Society''s Margaret McWilliams Award. "As Many Liars" was nominated for the 2003 Manitoba Book Awards'' Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction.